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Tanzania
Jan 12, 2023

Giving Children with Clefts Their Smiles Back in Tanzania

A peek at just some of the lifesaving work Smile Train makes possible each day

Smile Train patient Spelanzia receiving nutritional care
Tanzania
Sep 30, 2022

Cleft Nutrition Care Is Saving Lives in Tanzania

When a cleft makes feeding impossible, so is cleft surgery
Azza smiling
Egypt
Sep 22, 2022

Innovinity Gives Children With Clefts Their Big Breaks

Our partners understand that children with clefts need so much more than surgery to thrive
Dr. Tarek
Egypt
Aug 4, 2022

Dr. Tarek: Hearing Care is Cleft Care

Why one of the world’s foremost experts on clefts and hearing is a proud Smile Train partner
Tanzania
Jul 26, 2022

Eight Years Later, Osawa is Still Smiling

Smile Train’s 1 millionth patient now aspires to be a doctor himself

Sama
Egypt
May 19, 2022

Sama’s Mother Never Gave Up on Her. Neither Will We

Where there’s a mother’s love, there’s always hope

Sondos with her orthodontist
Egypt
May 13, 2022

Against All Odds, Sondos Designs a Future

Nearly starved at birth, orphaned at five, bullied relentlessly, Sondos has survived a lot in nine years. Now she’s ready to thrive
Saber being held by his father after his Smile Train cleft surgery
Egypt
Sep 16, 2021

Saber’s Cleft Journey, in His Parents’ Words

Their names are withheld; their truth is not.
kids or cleft baby
Tanzania
Sep 3, 2021

Why Children Need Their Own Operating Rooms

Smile Train and KidsOR are teaming up to make pediatric surgery safer and more accessible in Tanzania's Lake Zone.
 

Egypt
Jul 1, 2021

How One Hospital Expanded Cleft Care During COVID-19

The incredible story of Kids Hospital in Egypt in the words of the heroic staff who made it happen.

Habeeba's family holds image of her before cleft surgery
Egypt
Feb 1, 2020

A Father In Disbelief

When Habeeba was born, the doctor gasped and told her mother, Ahlam, he’d never seen a baby like her before.

Tanzania
Jul 11, 2019

It Starts with a Smile: Osawa

Checking in with our 1,000,000th patient.

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