Argentina May 8, 2020 Nurse Celeste Nurse Celeste used to feel so unable to help the babies with clefts that were born in her ward that she avoided them. Then she had a son with a cleft.
United States Apr 10, 2020 Manny Ventura: “What’s Your Battle Scar?” "Being born “different” is exactly why you should achieve big goals and be full of confidence."
United States Mar 9, 2020 Peggy and Katy When Katy was born with a cleft, it brought her and her mother on an unexpected, globetrotting journey.
United States Mar 5, 2020 Grace Peters: Born With a Purpose How Smile Train helped Grace go from a girl looking for answers to global cleft hero.
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.
China Dec 17, 2019 It Starts with a Smile: Wang Li Even 20 years later, our first patient says she owes it all to that one surgery.
United States Jul 21, 2019 A Model of Empowerment It's past time to rethink the mission model of cleft care.
Ecuador Jun 11, 2019 A Father’s Legacy of Smiles How one man built a legacy of smiles that will last for generations — on both sides of the operating table.
Ecuador Mar 7, 2019 Treating the Whole Child in Ecuador Meet the brother-sister duo transforming cleft care in the mountains of Ecuador.
Egypt Sep 11, 2018 A Deafening Silence For Initissar “We would sell everything we owned to get Rawda’s lip treated as soon as possible — nothing is going to stop us.”
Ecuador Feb 14, 2018 Fernanda: The Jolly Rancher 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.
China Jun 14, 2017 Renpuci Smiles at High Altitude Smile Train's partners will travel any distance and scale the highest mountains to provide free care to children in need.