Our Stories

How Smile Train is bringing local cleft care to the edge of human civilization

Our model of empowering local cleft teams makes all the difference for families like Aaron's.

How Smile Train helped a girl who nearly didn't survive infancy grow to become queen of the rink.

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.

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

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Smile Train patient Mia from Argentina. 

For 70 years, Pyari knew little besides rejection and heartbreak, until you gave her hope. And a smile.

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.