. >> rikta mother proxy: every day rikta comes home and cries. she compares herself to her sisters and brothers and asks me why she's not like them. >> matthew josey: some of the kids that come in have been ostracized; have no involvement with the outside world. a lot of these children are orphans, simply because of their cleft lip or pallet. >> steven naum: they greet the world every day with this deformity right in the middle of their face, that affects something that's very simple, that we all do every day, we smile, we talk, we express ourselves. >> carrie britton: the kids get left on the sides of streets, get thrown in dumpsters, get stones thrown at them, get made fun of, get kicked, i've seen get dirt thrown at them. just, they just have terrible, terrible lives. >> patricia walerius: they're hidden away or they're not educated because their families are embarrassed. and this gives us the opportunity to provide them with some semblance of a normal life, they can go to school and that maybe their lives will become better. [ background soun