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Eric with the other Team EMPOWER runners for the New York Half
United States
May 10, 2022

Half Marathon, Whole Hearts

Three women help others by helping themselves with Team EMPOWER
Smile Train participants take a selfie at the 79th annual ACPA Annual Meeting
United States
Apr 29, 2022

Renewing Ties, Renewing Purpose: The 79th Annual ACPA Meeting

Smile Train brought 200+ medical partners from 40+ countries to America’s leading cleft conference

Maxi's mother holding him just after his free cleft surgery
Paraguay
Apr 20, 2022

The Wait Is Over: Paraguay's First Local, Sustainable Cleft Care Center Opens

COVID-19 only further proved the need for empowering local healthcare experts
Christian Henry holds a baby in Honduras
United States
Jan 18, 2022

Christian Henry: Providing Better Cleft Care Through Data

She was ahead of the curve on epidemiology. Now she’s bringing her visionary eye to cleft care
Krista's son surrounded by Cuddles for Clefts stuffed animals with clefts
United States
Nov 11, 2021

When They Found the Truth, They Found Smile Train

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

Surgeons performing surgery
United States
Nov 11, 2021

Call for Proposals

Smile Train and Lifebox Launch Request for Proposals for Capnography Device

Mrighna with her mother after free Smile Train cleft surgery in Nepal
Nepal
Jul 6, 2021

A Mother Learns to Trust

A cleft mom from Nepal on how Smile Train helped heal her whole family.
Dr. Elizabeth Igaga, an anesthesiologist, is committed to surgical patient safety.
United States
Jun 7, 2021

The Fight to Provide Safe Surgery

Inside and outside the operating room, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient. 

Pam with Susie and a patient
United States
May 21, 2021

Pamela Sheeran on Smile Train’s Investment in Expanding Non-Surgical Cleft Care

An interview with the woman behind our comprehensive cleft care programs.
Training doctors to provide free cleft lip and palate surgery in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Paraguay
May 11, 2021

Smile Train’s Next Stop: Paraguay

Building a sustainable, local foundation for success in our newest partner country.

Smile Train patient Gianna after cleft lip and palate surgery
United States
Mar 15, 2021

How Smile Train Kept Making Smiles Through COVID-19

While other cleft organizations’ operations were indefinitely suspended or severely cut back, Smile Train was able to keep moving.

Dr. Luis Cuadros with a cleft lip and palate patient and his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation.
United States
Feb 24, 2021

"It Is Possible": Celebrating Dr. Luis Cuadros

Thanks to Dr. Cuadros — and Smile Train — having a cleft on the Navajo reservations of New Mexico is no longer a sentence to a life of isolation and sickness.

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