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… Faith Based Faith Based Share your compassion for children living with clefts with your congregation or religious school. Contact Us Faith-Based Partnerships By joining Faithful Smiles, you and your congregation will help provide lifesaving cleft care to children in need around the world. There are many different ways that you and your congregation can get involved. … community to start a weekly or monthly collection to fund a free cleft surgery for a child. Or, engage them in a bake sale or a bingo night. Fundraising within your congregation or youth group can be incredibly rewarding, and we are here …
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… safe, quality, local cleft care for 1.5+ million children – more than every other charity combined. And we won’t stop until every person with a cleft has access to the care they need to live, thrive, and smile. July is Cleft Awareness …
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… medical providers care for patients around the globe. As the world focuses on how to come together to combat COVID-19, Smile Train has received a number of resources that have been developed by experts at the WHO, WFSA, CDC, and ASA, among … these are useful for your context and how best to adapt these resources for your health systems. Best Practice Resources Smile Train partners must meet extremely high standards of cleft care. Our document and video library of Best Practice Resources can help you provide the safest, highest quality cleft surgery and comprehensive care services. Smile Train Express This free, secure, web-based patient database is accessible to Smile Train partners and available in …
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… Bioethics. From her home in Panama, she flew to the Philippines, where she would spend the next five months supporting Smile Train programs as a Community Health Program Specialist at long-time Smile Train partner Philippine Band of Mercy. Her work was part of GSK’s innovative PULSE volunteer program, which allows … an opportunity within the organization by the company’s partners. Ingrid was the first PULSE volunteer to work with Smile Train as part of Smile Train and GSK’s multi-year partnership . As a nutrition expert, a former international …
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… Thankfully, Juliana’s daughter gave her the number for the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), their local Smile Train partner, when Destiny was still a toddler. The specially trained staff there understands the link between … time singing, dancing, and smiling with friends. And so can countless other children with clefts. That’s the difference Smile Train’s sustainable model of empowering local medical professionals makes. That’s the difference Smile Train’s donors make. “Smile Train, I really appreciate and I thank God for [them], that God of Heaven will continue …
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… Auner Love always finds a way. In 2017, we shared the story of Auner, a baby with a cleft who was brought to live at Smile Train’s local partner Esperanza de Vida when the Guatemalan government determined his family was not currently able … . Under their expert care, this once severely malnourished baby was nursed to health until he was ready for his first Smile Train-sponsored cleft surgery. By age three, Auner had gained the strength and confidence he needed to make friends and smile with the other children in the orphanage. Today, we are thrilled to report that Auner has since been “adopted” — by …
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… Erin Stieber Bio Erin Stieber Chief Programs Officer Erin joined Smile Train in 2013 and serves as Chief Programs Strategy Officer. She has more than ten years of experience working with cleft lip and palate surgical programs around the world … of Program Development at Operation Smile. She also spent time in the private sector as an attorney in the London offices of Allen & Overy, LLP. Erin's work at Smile Train focuses on strengthening treatment programs and access to care …
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… treatment plan. For another, their doctor knew to refer them to the Bulgarian Association for Facial Anomalies (ALA), a Smile Train partner. Dasha with Lev and his twin brother, Philip Thanks to the ALA, Metodi and Dasha learned how many … Bulgaria did not know that ALA existed; most Bulgarians didn’t even know what a cleft was. Lev Simeonov at the Run for Smiles So Metodi got moving to change that — literally. Metodi holds Lev on his shoulders An avid runner, Metodi teamed up with two friends to organize the first-annual Run with a Smile event — a series of two races through the forest-covered mountains and cobbled streets of Vratsa May 22 and 23, …
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… & CEO From our founding, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility (DEIBA) have been at the heart of Smile Train’s sustainable and local model of supporting surgery and other forms of essential care. We are proud of the … care they deserve. All of this would not be possible without the commitment of our most precious resource: our amazing Smile Train staff. The same behaviors that make DEIBA efforts effective – leveraging diverse skills and perspectives, … respect, and creating equitable opportunities for growth and development – are reflective of the core values on which Smile Train was founded in 1999. Actively and thoughtfully centering DEIBA principles in all that we do is not only the …
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… Candid Corporate Partnership Candid & Smile Train All Corporate Partners Candid! We are excited to officially launch our charitable partnership with Candid for … and access to care by leveraging modern telehealth practices to diagnose, treat and monitor orthodontic cases. Making Smiles Accessible, Together! Through our partnership, Candid will support cleft treatment for 1,000 children … and provide vital support in orthodontic health care for the children served by our programs. Candid recently visited Smile Train’s programs in Mexico City to witness first-hand the work they are helping support. During their visit, Candid …
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… Solano "My purpose is to share hope and bring peace to mothers whose babies are born with clefts." Full-time mom and Smile Train partner Cris Solano, from Quito, Ecuador, shares the story of how her son inspired her to become a member of our Smile Train Cleft Community Advisory Council (CCAC). How would someone describe you? My family has said I am easy-going, calm, compassionate, and confident. How did you find out about Smile Train? Eleven years ago, my son Martin was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate — conditions I had never even …
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… Support Ways to Give! Here's how you can help. Support Options Travel for Treatment | $15 can help offset the cost of a family’s travel to a Smile Train partner center. … our Premier Circle — an exclusive group of donors with access to special opportunities and even more reasons to smile … Support …