Our Stories

An Amazonian experience

This woman will travel 15 hours through thick jungles just to make one child smile

A Smile Train staff member’s reflections on a week of seeing cleft patients’ dreams come true

Reaching every corner of Indonesia with our partners.

Adriana is bringing nutrition education to cleft-affected families across Peru.

It broke Dr. Meza's heart to see his patients with clefts struggle to eat, speak, sleep, or even feel good about themselves because of poor dental health. So he partnered with Smile Train to do something about it.

Dr. Echeverri founded FISULAB in the belief that all aspects of cleft care are equal.

For Evelyn Caserres-Nano, speech therapy is more than a job — it is a calling.

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.

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.