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… ended up at Amendeep Hospital, where the staff told them that, thanks to their partnership with an organization called Smile Train, Paulwin’s cleft surgery — and all other vital cleft care she would ever need to live, grow, and thrive — … misaligned. Learning to speak without a roof to her mouth made her difficult to understand even years later. That’s why Smile Train works closely with our partners to ensure our patients always have access to the full range of high-quality care they need to not only smile but thrive, right in their own backyards. Paulwin is ready to make her debut on the world stage As Paulwin grew, …
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… Train is hosting an exciting online auction and an online store, and we want you to be part of it! Our celebrity ambassadors have donated an auction item or have created a specially designed shirt or product for you! You have the chance to bid on fantastic items or purchase the product, and every dollar raised will directly support our global cleft programs, helping children in need worldwide. …
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… Smile Train Brought Cleft Care Superheroes Together for Our Inaugural LIT Congress Smile Train's Inaugural LIT Congress In Santiago, Chile, 200 medical partners from across Latin America united for a three-day cleft care confab To us, all Smile Train medical partners are part of one global family with one common language: smiles. This past June, we hosted …
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… Visiting Our Patients with Miss USA and Miss Peru Visiting Our Patients with Miss USA and Miss Peru A Smile Train staff … Peru. Here are her takeaways, complete with lots of pictures. Miss Peru Yely Rivera greets Miss USA Elle Smith in Lima The first day, Elle and Yely got to observe a patient before, during, and after cleft surgery at Asociación Civil Mision … Yely with a patient and their mother right after Smile Train-sponsored cleft surgery So that got them acquainted with what clefts are, what cleft surgery entails, what comprehensive cleft treatment is, and how Smile Train’s model of …
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… Endang Is a Force of Nature Powered by Love This woman will travel 15 hours through thick jungles just to make one child smile Though Endang Sasi’s title at Smile Train Indonesia partner Yayasan Ummi Romlah Foundation is “social worker,” “pathfinder” might be more accurate. Her … work, and she loves every second of it. Thankfully, her job recently got much easier thanks to an Awareness Grant from Smile Train partner GSK. Money and distance now no longer stand in the way of her finding children with clefts and …
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… - Erin Stieber, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Smile Train Qlik was named a Top Ten Most Innovative Company for Social Good by Fast Company in its annual ranking of the world's Most Innovative Companies for its work with Smile Train, and other …
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… Camila’s Story is No Fairytale Camila’s Story is No Fairytale But Smile Train empowered her to write her own happily ever after Camila lives on an idyllic, tree-lined farm in a valley … setting masks a darker reality: Camila spent much of her childhood in fear. We think Camila always had a beautiful smile She was born with a cleft. It forced her to spend days at a time in the hospital. She had her first cleft surgery … anesthesia. How long and hard the recovery would be once she woke up. Then, at school, other kids teased her for her smile. For the bandages she needed to heal it and the years of orthodontics she needed to straighten it. In those …
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… My Husband Left When Our Daughter Was Born With a Cleft My Husband Left When Our Daughter Was Born With a Cleft But … until they showed the child to me because of her cleft. However, the other one insisted they tell me more details to prepare me for what was about to come. Frankly speaking, I wasn't eager to look at the baby. Her cleft left me weeping. I … and received an additional cleft surgery just this year. The speech therapy taught her to speak with confidence, and now you would never know she had a cleft from listening to her. Rawdah with her friends Cleft treatment has freed my baby to …
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… Chanel Iman: Cleft Care Saves Lives Chanel Iman: Cleft Care Saves Lives The model and activist on why Smile Train's work is so close to her heart. Our newest Celebrity Supporter, Chanel Iman, on why she's joining Smile Train to fight for children with clefts — and how you can get involved, too. … The model and …
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… History Did Not Repeat Itself with Makiba History Did Not Repeat Itself with Makiba In the shadow of unthinkable tragedy, Smile Train helped turn sorrow into hope Hana was no stranger to clefts. An aunt had two children with clefts and was so … and myths. Her diligence paid off. At six months old, Makiba easily passed her pre-surgical health screening, giving Smile Train’s partner cleft team at Kadisco the greenlight to perform the first of two Smile Train-sponsored cleft surgeries that would transform Makiba’s life — and her mother’s life — forever. Makiba today …
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… A Mother Learns to Trust A Mother Learns to Trust A cleft mom from Nepal on how Smile Train helped heal her whole family. Meiju is the mother of Mrighna, a girl from Kathmandu, Nepal, who was born with a cleft. Below, she shares her family’s journey to Smile Train and the healing your support made possible. This interview was conducted in 2018, when Mrighna was just over … care for her and we didn’t want to hurt her. Thankfully, the hospital staff told us that clefts were treatable, and that Smile Train would sponsor the costs of all the care she would ever need at Vayodha Hospital nearby. Knowing that freed us …