Kenya Apr 11, 2022 Out of School and Out of Sight for 17 Years, Ndindai is Now Embracing Life How one smile can change a life
Kenya Dec 23, 2021 Damaris is Not an Outcast After 17 years of exclusion, her new smile helped her community see the truth about clefts
Kenya Dec 20, 2021 Kioko Can Finally Leave the Family Farm After 17 years of isolation, a smile set him free
Ethiopia Oct 7, 2021 Untold Stories In Ethiopia, Dr. Bethel and Smile Train are changing the narrative around malnutrition.
Egypt Sep 16, 2021 Saber’s Cleft Journey, in His Parents’ Words Their names are withheld; their truth is not.
Kenya Jul 29, 2021 Determined Damaris Even when the whole world seemed against her, Damaris persisted. And won.
El Salvador Jun 17, 2021 We Are Smiles in El Salvador When their son's life was changed forever, Héctor Rivas and Karen wanted to give the same relief to families across El Salvador.
Kenya Apr 21, 2020 It’s Never Too Late to Dream Maria has been waiting for cleft surgery since 1953. When the opportunity came, her son wanted her to pass.
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.
Kenya Dec 22, 2019 A Smile That Brightens And Enlightens Ayubu's classmates harassed him relentlessly for years because of a local myth about clefts. When he was 10 years old, his mother heard there was hope at a hospital less than an hour away.
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.