At Cleft Con 2021, Vulnerability is Strength
“It's amazing what your cleft journey will do to your life when you embrace it.”
All Aboard for Healthy Smiles
With GSK, we're providing oral health training to support children with clefts.
What My Cleft Taught Me
In honor of Cleft Awareness Month 2021, Smile Train's Cleft Community Advisory Council presents real-life stories of growing up with a cleft or being the mom to a child with a cleft from people who have been there.
How Iva Found Joy in Her Cleft
A Growing Challenge, a Growing Commitment
Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative content series
This Woman — and Smile Train Partner — is Making History in Zambia
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.
"It Is Possible": Celebrating Dr. Luis Cuadros
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.
Changing Cleft Culture in Nigeria
Dedicated Smile Train partners in Nigeria are taking to the streets to educate about clefts.
Cleft Con Unites #Cleftstrong Community in Pride and Power
"There's power in my cleft."
“It is a Journey”: In Conversation with the Mom of a Child With a Cleft
Clefts are not just "fixable."
Chelsea and Luca
When Chelsea learned Luca would be born with a cleft, she couldn't find a community to comfort her. So she started her own.