IN TIMES LIKE THESE, DONORS APPRECIATE A CHARITY LIKE THIS.
Smile Train is the world's largest and most effective cleft charity - we help more children than all similar charities combined. The cleft surgery your donation provides is a true, modern-day medical miracle: it costs as little as $250 to give a desperate child not just a new smile, but a new life.

And the Oscar goes to...
Smile Pinki - a Real-World Fairy Tale - film about Smile Train wins an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Smile Pinki is the story of just one of more than 500,000 children who have received free cleft surgery thanks to Smile Train - and you. There are still millions of poor children with unrepaired clefts. These kids need our help. And we need yours.

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10 years. 500,000 surgeries and counting...

This year, Smile Train celebrates 10 years and 500,000 surgeries completed. Thanks to your support, we've been able to give children around the globe a second chance at life. But our work is far from done.

What Makes The Smile Train Different:

Unlike many charities, Smile Train decided to focus on solving a single problem: cleft lip and palate. And we're able to offer the lowest cost per surgery of any cleft charity because we empower local doctors to perform this important work.

Children in 75 countries are reached by Smile Train's work, which has the highest safety and quality record amongst all cleft charities.

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Smile Train's unique strategy.

The free surgery and related treatment that we sponsor is performed by a local medical team in a local hospital in a developing country. This "teach a man to fish" strategy builds in-country capacity while helping very poor but very proud communities become self-sufficient, one smile at a time.

Every 5 minutes, a Smile Train surgery is changing a life.

We perform 300 surgeries each day, in locations around the world. Help us keep the Smile Train going.

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