Our Stories

The connection between art and mental health: An interview with Grace Peters

“Being recognized by Smile Train means Chile is now a regional leader training and educating doctors from all over the world."

For Andrea Meza, clefts are personal.

Inside and outside the operating room, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient. 

Building a sustainable, local foundation for success in our newest partner country.

Adahara knew she was lucky to receive all the cleft treatment she needed from an early age. She's training to become a Smile Train partner because she knows not every child with a cleft is so lucky.

Thanks to Dr. Cuadros — and Smile Train — having a cleft on the Navajo reservations of New Mexico is no longer a sentence to a life of isolation and sickness.

How Smile Train Partners Are Treating Children with Clefts Through the Pandemic 

Surgeon. Activist. Teacher. Woman.