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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

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
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
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.

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.

Argentina
Dec 3, 2020

Silvia and Marisa Make Dental Dreams Come True

Dental and orthodontic care is changing lives in Argentina. 

Argentina
Nov 11, 2020

Andrea Helps Children With Clefts Tell Their Own Stories

How a Smile Train partner from Argentina helps children speak with confidence.

Argentina
Nov 2, 2020

Cristina Changes the Story of Our Patients' Lives Through Nutrition

Nutrition is the first step in a child's cleft treatment journey.

Celeste in Smile Train scrubs
Argentina
May 11, 2020

A Nurse's Commitment

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.

Argentina
May 8, 2020

Nurse Celeste

Nurse Celeste used to feel so unable to help the babies with clefts that were born in her ward that she avoided them. Then she had a son with a cleft.

Nguyen Van Dau Smile Train partner
Vietnam
Jun 8, 2017

From Tragic Beginnings To Smiles In Vietnam

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.

 

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