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Art Impact Brazil staff and partners smiling and holding Smile Train signs
Brazil
Jan 23, 2023

Art Impact for Health Brazil

An Amazonian experience

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
Sama
Egypt
May 19, 2022

Sama’s Mother Never Gave Up on Her. Neither Will We

Where there’s a mother’s love, there’s always hope

Sondos with her orthodontist
Egypt
May 13, 2022

Against All Odds, Sondos Designs a Future

Nearly starved at birth, orphaned at five, bullied relentlessly, Sondos has survived a lot in nine years. Now she’s ready to thrive
Saber being held by his father after his Smile Train cleft surgery
Egypt
Sep 16, 2021

Saber’s Cleft Journey, in His Parents’ Words

Their names are withheld; their truth is not.
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.

Brazil
May 14, 2021

Bringing Smiles to the Amazon with Yaçuri

How our local partner in the Amazon is reaching across borders to bring vital cleft care to underserved indigenous communities.
Oscar holding a picture of himself before free Smile Train cleft lip and plate surgery in Zambia.
Zambia
Apr 22, 2021

Oscar is a Gift

How a mother found the strength to raise eight boys on her own and a son found the strength to smile.

Dr. Amanda Malungo holding a cleft patient after his surgery.
Zambia
Mar 2, 2021

This Woman — and Smile Train Partner — is Making History in Zambia

She's 36 years old, a mother of four, Zambia's first female plastic surgeon, and a Smile Train partner. Here's how she does it all.

Samson's mom hold an image of Samson before cleft surgery
Zambia
Sep 23, 2020

Baby Samson’s Superhuman Strength

Aunt Rebecca did not trust that her sister would provide Samson with the special care he needed. So, she brought him back to the place he was born, the tiny-two room house he now shared with 13 relatives, all female.

Habeeba's family holds image of her before cleft surgery
Egypt
Feb 1, 2020

A Father In Disbelief

When Habeeba was born, the doctor gasped and told her mother, Ahlam, he’d never seen a baby like her before.

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