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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

Wang Li and her husband
China
Nov 1, 2022

Smile Train Carries Love to Thousands of Villages In China

Home of Smile Train’s first patient, Smile Train China is still growing after more than 22 years
Mariane Goes
Brazil
Aug 9, 2022

Mariane Goes is Teaching the World to Fish

Meet our Director for Education and Training for Latin America and the Caribbean 

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
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.
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.

China
Dec 17, 2019

It Starts with a Smile: Wang Li

Even 20 years later, our first patient says she owes it all to that one surgery.
Dr Brown holds the Time magazine that he is on the cover of
Liberia
Oct 24, 2017

Ebola Crisis Hero Becomes #SmileMaker

During the 2014 Ebola Crisis, Dr. Jerry Brown reshaped the landscape of healthcare in Liberia, landing him on the cover of Time as their Person of the Year. Now, with Smile Train's help, he plans to do the same for cleft surgery.

Renpuci on a train with her dad
China
Jun 14, 2017

Renpuci Smiles at High Altitude

Smile Train's partners will travel any distance and scale the highest mountains to provide free care to children in need.

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.

 

Bao with an untreated cleft on his mother's back while she is farming
China
Apr 12, 2017

Carry Me To A Smile

 After getting over the initial shock of having a baby with a cleft, Bao’s family noticed that he struggled to breathe and was unable to breastfeed. They knew he needed help, but didn't think it would ever be possible for him. Then they learned about Smile Train.

Wang Li, Smile Train's first patient, holds her before cleft surgery image
China
Dec 13, 2016

Wang Li: One In A Million

Seventeen years later, we check in with our very first patient.

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