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Tanzania

Jan 12, 2023

Giving Children with Clefts Their Smiles Back in Tanzania

A peek at just some of the lifesaving work Smile Train makes possible each day

Yohanes and his mother smiling and holding a picture of him before cleft surgery

Ethiopia

Jan 5, 2023

Never Sleep on Yohanes

More proof that nothing is stronger than a mother’s love

Akuya smiling while holding a picture of herself before cleft surgery

Togo

Dec 28, 2022

“She Is Our Pride and What Gave Us Strength”

How a family from rural Togo overcame superstition and fear to get their daughter the care she needed

United States

Dec 22, 2022

Cleft Con 2022: Introducing the #CleftProud Generation

From the NFL to high schools across the country, today’s young people with clefts are proud and unstoppable

Samrat smiling with a picture of himself before cleft surgery

India

Dec 15, 2022

Samrat Was Always a Perfect Baby

His family saw past his cleft, even when others couldn’t

Guatemala

Nov 10, 2022

With Every Breath, Esvin Defies the Odds

His family thought a child like him could never make it. Then they encountered Smile Train

Jim Rowe running in a triathlon in September 2022

United States

Nov 9, 2022

This Pastor and Triathlete with a Cleft Knows the Meaning of Endurance

Jim Rowe shares a truth it took him nearly 40 years to internalize

Colombia

Oct 19, 2022

Cleft Community Advisory Council Members Visit Colombia

One community, separated and united by smiles

Togo

Oct 13, 2022

Dr. Grégoire Akakpo-Numado: Smile Train’s Model is Life or Death for My Patients

To begin a career bringing tears of joy to mothers across Togo, he had to make his father mad first

A mother feeding her underweight baby with a cleft in Tanzania

United States

Oct 12, 2022

Smile Train-Commissioned Study Reveals Deadly Reality of Malnutrition and Clefts

New study reveals nearly HALF of malnutrition-related deaths in people with clefts could have been prevented with access to adequate treatment and support

Smile Train patient Spelanzia receiving nutritional care

Tanzania

Sep 30, 2022

Cleft Nutrition Care Is Saving Lives in Tanzania

When a cleft makes feeding impossible, so is cleft surgery

YLC co-chair Lou Jug speaks at Cleft Con Chicago in July

United States

Sep 27, 2022

Voices From the First-Ever In-Person Cleft Con

“It truly felt like we all needed it — as though it fed our souls”

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