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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.

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.

Meet the three moms changing what it means to have a child with a cleft in Chiapas.

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

Surgeon. Activist. Teacher. Woman.

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.

Gracee was born with a cleft lip and palate in the Philippines and she was incessantly bullied growing up.