Our Stories

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.

When award-winning chef and Smile Train Ambassador Graham Elliot joined Selena Gomez on her HBO Max show Selena + Chef, the good times stretched from Selena‘s kitchen to the faces of children in need around the world.

Cleft surgery was only one piece of Livingstone's journey from malnourished baby to star of his village.

Magaly is the mother of David, age five, a Smile Train patient in Quito, Ecuador. She shared with us her son’s journey to cleft care and what Smile Train has meant for her entire family.

At one month old, Mirian weighed just four pounds. Five months later, with the support of our local partners, she had transformed into a happy, chubby baby.

Neilsen helped a mission organization that flew doctors into Madagascar to provide cleft care, but he knew local doctors were as capable as those flying in. 

Sofia would hide at school so people wouldn't hear her voice. Now she wants the world to hear every word. 

Smile Train staff in Africa are ready to show you the impact of your support. 

Doha is ready for her next big challenge — building an infrastructure for sustainable, local cleft care in her native country as Smile Train’s first regional director for Morocco. 
 

This was the best ever for some children around the world

Elizabeth's family tries to find the cleft surgery she desperately needs, in the middle of a lockdown.

When endurance events got canceled around the world, these Smile Train supporters ran anyways.