A Bright Future for Every Person with a Cleft is Possible
Two million life-changing cleft surgeries. $69 billion+ in economic impact. More than 100,000 healthcare workers trained. For the past 25 years, we've lit more faces with smiles than every other cleft charity combined.
And we’re still just getting started.
Smile Train is steaming into the future full speed ahead, making ambitious investments in the people and technologies that will bring high-quality, comprehensive cleft care to more people in more places than ever before for the next 25 years and beyond.
2 Million and Counting
When we first met 10-year-old Rajib earlier this year, he was self-conscious and struggling in school. He didn't have many friends. His father, Alim, could relate. When he was in first grade, his classmates abused him so badly for his cleft that he was forced to drop out. He never went back.
Then they received Smile Train's 2 millionth — and 2 million and first — cleft surgeries earlier this year. Almost overnight, everything changed for the whole family. Even 50-year-old Alim can't believe how much promise and possibility his life now holds. This father and son's total transformation must be seen to be believed. And as you see it, keep in mind that Rajib and Alim are only two of the more than 2 million people from every corner of the world who are now living with renewed hope, health, and opportunity, thanks to Smile Train donors like you.
Lighting Up the World with Smiles — Literally
On October 4, World Smile Day®, we celebrated 25 years of lighting up the world with smiles by making history: Over the course of 24 hours, we illuminated 64 landmarks around the world, from the Empire State Building in New York to the Rizal Monument in the Philippines, from the BT Tower in London to the Women’s Bridge in Argentina, in Smile Train blue — setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title!
Behind-the-Scenes at Simulare Medical, a Division of Smile Train
How a tool originally made for robots is empowering real surgeons around the world.
Lighting Operating Rooms, Greening the Planet
In an operating room, sudden darkness is a waking nightmare, and it’s one families across Africa are all too familiar with. Some hospitals experience hundreds of electrical outages each month, sometimes lasting for days at a time.
That is not acceptable.
So Smile Train and our partner Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) teamed up to do something about it. The results are stunningly captured in "Healthier Together: A path to a better world," a video produced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions — the BBC's award-winning content production studio — in consultation with the WHO Foundation.