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… step further by asking all participants to donate a few dollars to Smile Train alongside every card they create. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected] . Smile Train Attn: Get Well Cards 633 Third Ave., 9th Fl New York, NY 10017 Helpful Hints Please make the cards 5x7 or smaller. Thick paper is preferred as the cards … to write a note on the inside of the card, consider translating "Smile." Spanish: sonries Portuguese: sorriso Indonesian: senyum Filipino: ngiti … Card Making …
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… Feeding & Nutrition Feeding & Nutrition The first, and often most important, step in the cleft care journey is ensuring the … every person has access to safe, high-quality comprehensive cleft care and is able to live a full and healthy life requires inclusive nutrition programs that support mothers and babies impacted by clefts. Our nutrition programs … even more resources, please email nutrition@smiletrain.org . Feeding Video English Spanish Portuguese Hindi Bangla Tamil Feeding Handout Arabic Chinese English Variation 1 English Variation 2 French Variation 1 French Variation 2 Hindi …
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… Become a Social Media Ambassador Become a Social Media Ambassador Help spread the word about Smile Train’s work and bring smiles to children with clefts! Smile Train’s Social Media Ambassadors are encouraged to leverage their social media channels to help raise awareness …
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… 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 … your congregation or youth group can be incredibly rewarding, and we are here to help you every step of the way. The smile on a child’s face is a precious gift, I’m honored to support Smile Train’s vision of transforming the lives of children around the globe. - Tedashii, Smile Train Goodwill Ambassador …
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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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… 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 to meet his unique nutritional needs . Under their expert care, this once … to do everything possible to bring him back home. When they at last arrived at Esperanza de Vida in 2019, the staff was delighted to meet Auner’s parents but knew they needed to proceed with caution. Carina Mejia, a social worker at the …
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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 and oversees Smile Train's programmatic strategy and oversight, as well as innovative initiatives in education, training, research and comprehensive care. Prior to joining Smile Train, Erin was the Associate Vice President of Program Development at Operation Smile. She also spent time in the …
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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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… Oral Health The Importance of Oral Health Guidance & Dental Care Children with clefts are more likely to experience poor oral health, including tooth decay, gum diseases, dental anomalies, and crooked teeth. And each of these problems is made …