Togo Dec 28, 2022 “She Is Our Pride and What Gave Us Strength” How a family from rural Togo overcame superstition and fear to get their daughter the care she needed
Togo Oct 13, 2022 Dr. Grégoire Akakpo-Numado: Smile Train’s Model is Life or Death for My Patients To begin a career bringing tears of joy to mothers across Togo, he had to make his father mad first
Tanzania Sep 30, 2022 Cleft Nutrition Care Is Saving Lives in Tanzania When a cleft makes feeding impossible, so is cleft surgery
Nigeria Aug 12, 2022 Immaculata: How a Mother's Faith Brought Hope and New Beginnings A story of maternal love and faith bringing a family light out of darkness
Tanzania Jul 26, 2022 Eight Years Later, Osawa is Still Smiling Smile Train’s 1 millionth patient now aspires to be a doctor himself
Chile Jun 9, 2022 Amaro’s Smile “Fills Hearts” His story proves the truly transformative difference our model makes
Chile May 17, 2022 A Letter From Juan, a 10-Year-Old Patient from Chile What local cleft treatment means to patients, in a patient’s own words
Chile Apr 28, 2022 Fundación Gantz: Raising the Bar for Cleft Care in Latin America “Being recognized by Smile Train means Chile is now a regional leader training and educating doctors from all over the world."
Nigeria Feb 22, 2022 Opeyemi: Families, Like Smiles, Come in Many Forms His father abandoned the family when he was born with a cleft. His mother never stopped trying to make him smile
Chile Sep 23, 2021 Vicente is Stronger Than Fear A mother's love + Smile Train and GSK = one confident young man
Nigeria Sep 23, 2021 Meet Nigeria's Sing and Smile Club So often, clefts cause speech issues that make children embarrassed to speak, even after surgery. Our solution? Teach them how to sing.
Nigeria Aug 24, 2021 Empowering Cleft Moms in Nigeria First it was their children. Now, Smile Train partner GSI is giving cleft moms unimagined opportunity, too.