Ending the cleft palate stigma | Veronica Sule | TEDxSugar Hill

Every idea starts with a spark. Children are being killed right now because of how they look. And this senseless killing happens because of stigma.Stigma is a powerful force in our society. It does not need proof. evidence.It only needs an audience. And stigma finds an easy target in individuals born with cleft lip and pallet. A condition that occurs due to failure of the fusion of the lip or the pallet and sometimes both during pregnancy.It occurs in one in 700 birds worldwide which makes it the most commo ...