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![Wesley smiling, holding a picture of himself before cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2024-01/wesley-50.jpg?itok=Qv2y-Za-)
Kenya
Still, Wesley Believed in Himself
Even when the world seemed against him, Wesley clung to hope for his future
![Kellen holds Eric after his cleft sugeries](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-01/eric-and-kellen-after-free-cleft-lip-cleft-palate-surgery-smile-train-uganda.jpg?itok=EdL74o_p)
Uganda
Eric: Hope is the Best Gift of All
A cleft mother’s fraught journey to care and dignity for her son and herself
Kenya
Damaris is Not an Outcast
After 17 years of exclusion, her new smile helped her community see the truth about clefts
![Miracle with her teacher and a classmate](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-11/miracle-free-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-uganda-smile-train-with-teacher-and-friend.jpg?itok=XiFi0OVr)
Uganda
A Miracle to Believe In
A cleft mother’s true story of faith, miracles, and Smile Train
![Benjamin thinking in a field in Kenya after his Smile Train-sponsored cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-10/benjamin-k-thinks-outside-after-free-smile-train-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-kenya.jpg?itok=-d4oDesF)
![Rosemary holding Nyasha](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-09/nyasha-og.jpg?itok=D48civoT)
Zimbabwe
Rosemary Has Something to Tell You
A patient’s mother speaks from the hospital.
![Munashe smiling after free Smile Train-sponsored cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-08/munashe-free-cleft-treatment-zimbabwe-50.jpg?itok=O93ipfL8)
Zimbabwe
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.”
![Smile Train patient Demaris from Kenya holds a picture of herself before her free cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-07/damaris-holding-photo-before-free-smile-train-cleft-lip-cleft-palate-surgery-kenya.jpg?itok=g5glTJIO)
Kenya
Determined Damaris
Even when the whole world seemed against her, Damaris persisted. And won.
![Oscar holding a picture of himself before free Smile Train cleft lip and plate surgery in Zambia.](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-04/oscar-after-free-cleft-surgery-holding-before-picture-zambia.jpg?itok=u-8JmCUs)
Zambia
Oscar is a Gift
How a mother found the strength to raise eight boys on her own and a son found the strength to smile.
![Livingstone with his friends after cleft lip and cleft palate surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-02/livingstone-with-friends-after-cleft-lip-cleft-palate-treatment.jpg?itok=zhxVMF1U)
Uganda
Livingstone Clings to Life
Cleft surgery was only one piece of Livingstone's journey from malnourished baby to star of his village.
![Nkunda before cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-01/nkunda-before-cleft-surgery-super.jpg?itok=N8aO5Rl3)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
A Walk to Freedom
Nkunda had to hide in the bushes on his journey to school every day. Something needed to be done.