After Pamela's delivery, the nurses told her that her son, Sebastian only had nine days to live. She was devastated. Se didn't know where to turn. Then she was referred to Smile Train's local partner, Fundacion Ninos que Rien
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.
Blanca and Selvin met in their youth as involved members of a church in Montúfar, Guatemala. Long conversations between them after church led to the exchange of love letters and, eventually, to marriage and children.
Rosa and her husband were living and working on a finca (ranch) in rural Colombia, taking care of a local landowner’s cows, when their first son Oscar was unexpectedly born with a cleft lip.
Lourdes was born in Yaruqui, Ecuador with a cleft lip and a rare condition in which skin was formed over her nostrils. Lourdes received six reconstructive surgeries when she was young, but the treatments stopped prematurely when her parents’ insurance company stopped covering her care.