Together at a Distance
Twenty-six years ago, Montse was born with a cleft lip and palate.
Remembering Dr. Hirji Adenwalla, Who Changed the World One Smile at a Time
Smile Train and the entire cleft community mourn the loss of Dr. Hirji S. Adenwalla, a truly heroic Smile Maker who treated thousands of children in need at Jubilee Mission Hospital in the southern Indian city of Thrissur from 1958 until his death May 27, 2020 at age 90.
A Doctor First: A Cleft Surgeon on the Front Lines of COVID-19
Dr. Daniely Farias is a Smile Train partner plastic surgeon in Campo Grande, Brazil who is now on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 in her community. She shared with us how this pandemic has transformed her work, her community, and her understanding of herself as a doctor.
Nurse Lisette Jerez
How Smile Train partners are treating children with clefts through the pandemic
It’s a bird, It’s a plane, It’s Gael
Eight years ago, Juanita met the love of her life, Everardo, at their company Christmas party.
The Smile Virtuoso
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.
You Must Be There to Care
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.
The Reassurance of a Smile
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.
Teach a Man to Fish in Panama
In 2017, Estefani and Gabriel were a young couple living with Estefani’s mother, Erika, in a rural area of Panama surrounded by rainforest. When the couple learned they were having a child, they were thrilled, but they also worried about whether they would be able to financially support an infant.
Soledad’s Writing the Book on Smiles
In 2014, Soledad Gallardo of Santa Barbara, Chile was very surprised when her daughter Matilda was born with a cleft lip.