Our Stories

"An incomplete smile that completes me…"

The connection between art and mental health: An interview with Grace Peters

For Andrea Meza, clefts are personal.

Adahara knew she was lucky to receive all the cleft treatment she needed from an early age. She's training to become a Smile Train partner because she knows not every child with a cleft is so lucky.

Meet the three moms changing what it means to have a child with a cleft in Chiapas.

When Dr. Dau started as a Smile Train partner, he knew children with clefts were often abandoned or put in orphanages. As an orphan himself, he comes to work each day determined that no other child should experience that pain.