Our Stories

When their son's life was changed forever, Héctor Rivas and Karen wanted to give the same relief to families across El Salvador.

He didn’t speak until he was 18. Now, people flock to hear him talk.

A mother’s first-person account.

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.

A boy from India is starving and his parents don't know what to do.

Mamta oversees Smile Train's programs from Egypt to the Philippines but sees the whole world in the smile of each individual child.

Saraswati's parents tried everything to feed their baby, but no matter what they tried, the milk still spilled out her cleft. She constantly screamed with hunger, and they didn't know how she'd make it. Then a friend told them about Smile Train.

Kamlesh learned to live with his cleft. His three children could not.

When Zena's family thought they could never afford cleft treatment for their daughter, you gave them hope.