Our Stories

Just the story you need this Father’s Day

His story proves the truly transformative difference our model makes

“Being recognized by Smile Train means Chile is now a regional leader training and educating doctors from all over the world."

For Andrea Meza, clefts are personal.

Adahara knew she was lucky to receive all the cleft treatment she needed from an early age. She's training to become a Smile Train partner because she knows not every child with a cleft is so lucky.

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.

Surgeon. Activist. Teacher. Woman.

How one man built a legacy of smiles that will last for generations — on both sides of the operating table.

Meet the brother-sister duo transforming cleft care in the mountains of Ecuador.