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… Why Yona Has Six Babies Named For Her Why Yona Has Six Babies Named for Her "For me, it’s always the question of 'What if Smile Train hadn’t been there?'" Based in Zimbabwe, Sibusisiwe Yona is Smile Train’s Program Director for Southern Africa. We sat down with her in February 2020 to discuss the future of cleft care in her region. How did you come to Smile Train? I’ve been working at Smile Train in Zimbabwe since 2017. I used to work in the Democratic Republic of the …
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… Getting Munashe Back Getting Munashe Back “I can’t find the words to express the joy I have in my heart for what Smile Train did for our child.” “I had never seen anything like this before and I was very shocked,” Beauty recalls of … they arrived at Beauty and Magadzire’s home to stare at the baby. Children came to call her names. Munashe before her Smile Train-sponsored cleft surgery “The staring was very painful for me,” Beauty recalled. “Every month, until Munashe … Munashe had no problems feeding and grew up as a healthy baby. Her natural curiosity and joy shone through her smile and sunny eyes, until she grew old enough to understand that that very smile was the reason her neighbors were …
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… have been at risk of severe malnutrition had Rona not eventually been referred to Harare Central Hospital, their local Smile Train partner. There, local experts performed the free cleft surgery that changed his life at age three. Today, the … few years ago, David didn’t even understand what the story meant. Local Care, Global Impact Since our founding in 1999, Smile Train has empowered 2,100+ healthcare workers across more than 90 countries to provide world-class cleft care … trust no outside group could ever replicate. That trust is what brought Rona to Harare Central Hospital so her son could smile, and now it’s helping her with the next thing she needs: money so he can stay in school and keep his hopes …
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… their advice and her heart to Nairobi. What an Anesthesiologist Feels Tsitsi’s CANECSA fellowship was sponsored by Smile Train and marked the first time she had cared for children with clefts. She was hooked from the first smile. “Just seeing the before and after pictures was enough. You don't even need to know more. You can see the drastic … guiding and helping me when I felt alone.” She particularly credits her mentors Drs. Faye Evans and Zipporah Gathuya of Smile Train’s Medical Advisory Board for helping her stay focused and be the force she needed to be to succeed. Tsitsi …
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… to Tell You A patient’s mother speaks from the hospital. Rosemary, from a small village in Zimbabwe, is the mother of Smile Train patient Nyasha. We caught up with her just after her six-month-old son came out of the operating room. Though … bring Nyasha to his hospital when he weighed 11 pounds and he would heal him for free thanks to an organization called Smile Train. Rosemary kisses Nyasha before his cleft surgery. I couldn’t believe it. This news was both wonderful and … farm; there are 10 of us total. We have one goat for milk, and we barely scrape by growing cotton and corn. Without Smile Train, I don’t know how we could have ever raised enough money to give Nyasha the treatment he needed to heal his …