Lighting Up the World with Smiles for 25 Years

Mother smiling with her sons and cleft-affected daughter before their surgery

2,000,000+

cleft surgeries sponsored

Smile Train's Global impact over the last 25 years

1,000+

partner centres

20,000+

partner healthcare professionals

95+

countries

100,000+

training opportunities for medical workers

Looking Back at 25 Years of Changing the World One Smile at a Time

All of our successes since our founding in 1999 stem from two sources: the tireless commitment of donors like you and the world-changing vision of one man: Charles B. Wang.

The history of Smile Train is, at its core, a story about the power each of us has to change the world.

Let's relive it together.

2000: Wang Li

2000

Our first patient, Wang Li, receives the cleft treatment that changes her life forever in Nanjing, China.

2014: Smile Train sponsors their 1,000,000th cleft surgery, on a child named Osawa in Tanzania.

2014

We sponsor our 1,000,000th cleft surgery, on a child named Osawa in Tanzania.

Father and son Alim and Rajib - Smile Train's 2,000,000 and 2,000,001 cleft surgeries.

2024

Father and son Alim and Rajib, from a remote village in Indonesia, receive Smile Train's 2,000,000th — and 2,000,001st — cleft surgeries.

The Next Chapter in Our History Will Be Written by Caring People Like You.