Our Stories

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

While other cleft organizations’ operations were indefinitely suspended or severely cut back, Smile Train was able to keep moving.

Adriana is bringing nutrition education to cleft-affected families across Peru.

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.

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.

When award-winning chef and Smile Train Ambassador Graham Elliot joined Selena Gomez on her HBO Max show Selena + Chef, the good times stretched from Selena‘s kitchen to the faces of children in need around the world.

Dedicated Smile Train partners in Nigeria are taking to the streets to educate about clefts. 

The cleft hotline, sponsored by GSK, is saving lives every day.

Dental and orthodontic care is changing lives in Argentina.