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Dr. Sally
Egypt
Mar 3, 2023

Dr. Sally Adel: High-Achieving Women Can Have It All

She’s a mom, professor, MD, speech therapist, swallowing and feeding therapist, and our hero

Mexico
Dec 20, 2022

A Love Song for Ana Sofia, and All Children with Clefts

"An incomplete smile that completes me…"

Azza smiling
Egypt
Sep 22, 2022

Innovinity Gives Children With Clefts Their Big Breaks

Our partners understand that children with clefts need so much more than surgery to thrive
Dr. Tarek
Egypt
Aug 4, 2022

Dr. Tarek: Hearing Care is Cleft Care

Why one of the world’s foremost experts on clefts and hearing is a proud Smile Train partner
Mexico
Jul 5, 2022

Eduardo’s Oaths

Inspired by his unstoppable mother, Eduardo took control of his life. Now he’s inspiring other children with clefts do the same
Grace Peters with patient
Mexico
May 27, 2022

Art Impact For Health Mexico

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

Afghani child before cleft surgery
Afghanistan
Oct 19, 2021

A Message of Hope from Afghanistan

How our partners in Kabul are helping children smile through the unthinkable.
Miss Universe Andrea Meza with two Smile Train patients in Mexico
Mexico
Sep 2, 2021

Miss Universe Comes Home to Make Mexico Smile

For Andrea Meza, clefts are personal.

Egypt
Jul 1, 2021

How One Hospital Expanded Cleft Care During COVID-19

The incredible story of Kids Hospital in Egypt in the words of the heroic staff who made it happen.

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. 

Adahara, on horseback, smiling in the Mexican sun after cleft treatment.
Mexico
Mar 2, 2021

The Smile That Will Spark Hundreds More

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.

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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