This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist’s journey from isolation and shame to a dream smile.
by Megan Mylan
There are more than 1 million people in India with cleft lips. This is the story of Pinki, a 5-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District in India.
She was born with a cleft lip into a desperately poor family. Her parents never realized that this condition required just one simple operation until they met Pankaj, a social worker who traveled from village to village, gathering patients to go to a hospital in Varanasi that provides free surgery to thousands each year.
This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist’s journey from isolation and shame to a dream smile.
The movie won an Academy Award and is free online.
www.smilepinkymovie.com
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 29, Number 2, April/May 2010.
April 14, 2012
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