Our Stories

How Smile Train helped a budding artist bloom through the unimaginable

After Pamela's delivery, the nurses told her that her son, Sebastian, only had nine days to live. She was devastated. She didn’t know where to turn. Then she was referred to Smile Train's local partner, Fundacion Ninos que Rien.

For adults with clefts, a smile also means fulfilling work with dignity.

Elizabeth's family tries to find the cleft surgery she desperately needs, in the middle of a lockdown.

Just when Jeann thought she had found a way to get her daughter with a cleft to a healthy weight, COVID-19 forced the entire island into lockdown.

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

 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.

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