Smile Train Celebrates
World Smile Day®
October 5th, 2012
Everyone please join us as we celebrate this joyous day devoted to acts of kindness ... by bringing a smile (and all that it means) to those who need it most.

Today, Oct. 5th is World Smile Day®

For each photo of a smile that you upload to Instagram, Tumblr or Twitter through October 5th,
Famous Famiglia will donate a gift of $10 to Smile Train's work.*

Share your favorite smile, and make a difference in the life of a child.


Thanks everyone for making our New York City Times Square event a success! We'll see you again next year as we celebrate World Smile Day® 2013! But your act of kindness does not stop here. Please continue to support us and knowing that your donation helps a child smile for the first time!


Christie Brinkley at World Smile Day® in Times Square, New York City.
Christie Brinkley at WSDChristie Brinkley with Kids WSD
Step 1
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Say Cheese!

Take a photo of your
favorite smile.

Step 2
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Share it with the world!

Upload your photo to Instagram, Twitter or Tumblr using the hashtag #SmileTrainWSD in the caption.

Step 3
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Help give a child a new smile!

Famous Famiglia will donate $10
to Smile Train each time
you share a smile.

Famous Famiglia Pizzeria loves to make people smile, which is why they proudly support Smile Train to provide free cleft surgery. They will be kindly donating $10 for every smile uploaded.

Famous Famiglia proudly supports Smile Train on World Smile Day

Christie will encourage all her friends and fans to upload their smiles to earn money for children. She'll also be hosting our special event in
Times Square! Come on down and join us Oct. 5th.

Christie Brinkley Supports Smile Train and hosts World Smile Day

A smile is something pretty wonderous. It brings us pleasure and love. Yet every three minutes, in developing countries around the world, a child is born with a cleft that denies him or her this essential experience. There are more than a million of these children who struggle to eat and speak, too poverty-striken to have their condition repaired. Most cannot attend school or hold a job and suffer a life of shame and humiliation.

Fortunately, Smile Train provides more than 320 cleft repair surgeries a day to poor children everywhere — giving them back the precious gift of a smile and with it, another chance at life. Won't you send us your smile, and help change a child's life forever.

Want to see some real life-changing smiles?

*For every photo uploaded to Instagram, Twitter or Tumblr, Famous Famiglia will donate $10, up to a maximum of $10,000, to Smile Train

By submitting your photograph, you are confirming that you own all rights in that photograph and that you are granting Smile Train perpetual and unfettered permission to make use of that photograph on a worldwide basis for any purpose, in any and all media, in its original format or edited or altered in any way which Smile Train deems appropriate. You acknowledge that your photograph, if used, shall not be secure, and may be further downloaded by third parties. If someone other than yourself created the picture, you hereby warrant that they granted you full permission to allow Smile Train to make full use thereof in accordance with the above statement. It is understood that we cannot guarantee that your picture will be used.

See all of our smiles on our Smile Train Pinterest Board.

Smile Train will set up three photo booths in Times Square at 50th and Broadway on World Smile Day®. Photos will be printed instantly and uploaded to social media pages. New York City schools will also have students participate in events throughout the day to support our initiatives.

On World Smile Day, Smile Train and Christie Brinkley will be celebrating in Times Square

See why Smile Train celebrates World Smile Day® and read our patients' stories.

Smile Train provides 320+ free cleft surgeries everyday

Know how "say cheese" makes people smile? Well, here's a way to deliver a more lasting smile to a child. Each time you use promo code SAYCHEESE at checkout, Artisanal Premium Cheese will contribute 15% of your purchase to Smile Train.

Smile Train World Smile Day