Our Stories

How Smile Train helped a budding artist bloom through the unimaginable

Even knowing help is available isn’t always enough to remove the stigma of having a cleft.

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

He didn’t speak until he was 18. Now, people flock to hear him talk.

A mother’s first-person account.

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.

A boy from India is starving and his parents don't know what to do.