Our Stories

A mother's love knows no bounds

How one kind stranger changed a little girl’s life

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

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

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

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

Adriana is bringing nutrition education to cleft-affected families across Peru.

Doha is ready for her next big challenge — building an infrastructure for sustainable, local cleft care in her native country as Smile Train’s first regional director for Morocco. 
 

It broke Dr. Meza's heart to see his patients with clefts struggle to eat, speak, sleep, or even feel good about themselves because of poor dental health. So he partnered with Smile Train to do something about it.

For Evelyn Caserres-Nano, speech therapy is more than a job — it is a calling.

During the 2014 Ebola Crisis, Dr. Jerry Brown reshaped the landscape of healthcare in Liberia, landing him on the cover of Time as their Person of the Year. Now, with Smile Train's help, he plans to do the same for cleft surgery.