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Tanzania
Jan 12, 2023

Giving Children with Clefts Their Smiles Back in Tanzania

A peek at just some of the lifesaving work Smile Train makes possible each day

Smile Train patient Spelanzia receiving nutritional care
Tanzania
Sep 30, 2022

Cleft Nutrition Care Is Saving Lives in Tanzania

When a cleft makes feeding impossible, so is cleft surgery
Audrey and Herve holding their twins, Lloyd and Floyd
Cameroon
Jun 30, 2022

Lloyd and Floyd: From Double the Shock to Double the Smiles

Sometimes opportunity is a knock. Other times, it’s a call from your mother
Mouhamed with his parents
Cameroon
Nov 22, 2021

A Son’s Cleft, a Father’s Destiny

How Mouhamed’s cleft might forever change cleft care in Cameroon

Tanzania
Jul 11, 2019

It Starts with a Smile: Osawa

Checking in with our 1,000,000th patient.
All the participants of Smile Train nutrition workshop
Burundi
Jun 19, 2019

Training The Trainer

Health workers from Burundi attend a workshop so they can better teach others about the importance of cleft nutrition. 

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.

Tanzania
Apr 6, 2015

Osawa Reborn | 8 Months Later

Just eight months after cleft surgery, this once shy boy is no longer afraid of anything.

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