Our Stories

In honor of Cleft Awareness Month 2021, Smile Train's Cleft Community Advisory Council presents real-life stories of growing up with a cleft or being the mom to a child with a cleft from people who have been there. 

Thanks to Dr. Cuadros — and Smile Train — having a cleft on the Navajo reservations of New Mexico is no longer a sentence to a life of isolation and sickness.

Thanks to you, thousands of children will think of 2020 as the best year ever.

Why Dave is a proud monthly donor to Smile Train. 

This cleft advocate has been changing lives since she was seven. 

When Chelsea learned Luca would be born with a cleft, she couldn't find a community to comfort her. So she started her own.