Clefts are a major problem in developing countries where there are still millions of children who are suffering with unrepaired clefts.Most cannot eat or speak properly.Some children even aren’t allowed to attend school or hold a job.And they face very difficult lives filled with shame，isolation，pain and heartache.Their clefts usually go untreated because they are poor—too poor to pay a simple surgery that has been around for decades.It isn’t a technical problem but an economic one. The good news is every single child with a cleft can be helped with surgery that costs as little as 250 and takes as little as 45 minutes.