Our Stories

How a mother found the strength to raise eight boys on her own and a son found the strength to smile.

Mathias Kiwanuka knows the true meaning of greatness.

A conversation with one of our heroes.

Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative content series

An interview with Dr. Esther Njoroge-Muriithi.

She's 36 years old, a mother of four, Zambia's first female plastic surgeon, and a Smile Train partner. Here's how she does it all.

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.

Cleft surgery was only one piece of Livingstone's journey from malnourished baby to star of his village.

Neilsen helped a mission organization that flew doctors into Madagascar to provide cleft care, but he knew local doctors were as capable as those flying in. 

Smile Train staff in Africa are ready to show you the impact of your support. 

Doha is ready for her next big challenge — building an infrastructure for sustainable, local cleft care in her native country as Smile Train’s first regional director for Morocco. 
 

Thanks to you, thousands of children will think of 2020 as the best year ever.