Our Stories

How Smile Train helped a budding artist bloom through the unimaginable

For adults with clefts, a smile also means fulfilling work with dignity.

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

A mother’s first-person account.

Elizabeth's family tries to find the cleft surgery she desperately needs, in the middle of a lockdown.

Aldrian is still on his cleft treatment journey. Watch as he works on speaking with confidence.

Small acts of kindness can have really big consequences. 

Just when Jeann thought she had found a way to get her daughter with a cleft to a healthy weight, COVID-19 forced the entire island into lockdown.

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

Though Mohammad's future is uncertain, Smile Train has given him hope.