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How Smile Train helped a budding artist bloom through the unimaginable

A cleft mother’s true story of faith, miracles, and Smile Train

For adults with clefts, a smile also means fulfilling work with dignity.

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.

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

Just when Jeann thought she had found a way to get her daughter with a cleft to a healthy weight, COVID-19 forced the entire island into lockdown.

Wendy was 17, single, and scared. She had just had a baby with a cleft, and any help seemed far, far away from her family's ranch in the remote Andes highlands. But Smile Train was there.