Our Stories

From the NFL to high schools across the country, today’s young people with clefts are proud and unstoppable

A night of sips, sweets, and smiles in SoHo

There is confidence and beauty in every smile.

A Smile Train staff member’s reflections on a week of seeing cleft patients’ dreams come true

“It's amazing what your cleft journey will do to your life when you embrace it.”

How one mother overcame despair and blame to find her son the treatment he so needed

How Jasmine went from fear and self-doubt upon receiving the news that her baby would have a cleft to raising a six-year-old who is #CleftProud.

When Hema was 12 years old, she learned that not everyone born with a cleft received the care she did. She decided right then to change that.