Our Stories

How one kind stranger changed a little girl’s life

A patient’s mother on how Smile Train partners treated her daughter

Never bet against a mother’s will to see her child smile.

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

A mother’s first-person account.

After experiencing some of the lowest depths imaginable, Anghelo and his family now celebrate their miraculous lives.

Angelica was 15 years old, single, and had just given birth to a baby with a cleft. All she knew about clefts was how she had seen people with them harassed without mercy. But she promised to never give up on the little life before her. 

Nkunda had to hide in the bushes on his journey to school every day. Something needed to be done. 

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