Our Stories

There is confidence and beauty in every smile.

Facing unprecedented uncertainty, a young family found hope with Smile Train

For Andrea Meza, clefts are personal.

Our model of empowering local cleft teams makes all the difference for families like Aaron's.

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.

How Smile Train helped a girl who nearly didn't survive infancy grow to become queen of the rink.

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Smile Train patient Mia from Argentina. 

Nurse Celeste always tried to avoid working with the babies with clefts in her neonatal ward because she felt unable to meet their needs. Then her son was born with a cleft.