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Zimbabwe
Dr Tsitsi Sithole Makes History by Ensuring the Future
Meet Zimbabwe’s first female paediatric anaesthetist
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Togo
Smile Train Helps Spread Cleft Speech Therapy Across West Africa
How a speech therapist from Benin is helping Smile Train patients find their voice
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Angola
Zita: How Two Days with Smile Train Changed Everything After 40 Years Alone
Zita isolated herself from society since childhood, only comfortable with her family. Smile Train helped her shine in her community.
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Angola
Behind the Smiles: Dr Preciosa Bento
Our Program Assistant for Southern Africa reflects on what working at Smile Train is really about
![Akuya smiling while holding a picture of herself before cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-12/akuya-50_0.jpg?itok=aBIVMluM)
Togo
“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
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Togo
Dr Grégoire Akakpo-Numado: Smile Train’s Model is Life or Death for My Patients
To begin a career bringing tears of joy to mums across Togo, he had to make his father mad first
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Cameroon
Lloyd and Floyd: From Double the Shock to Double the Smiles
Sometimes opportunity is a knock. Other times, it’s a ring from your mother
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Paraguay
The Wait Is Over: Paraguay's First Local, Sustainable Cleft Care Centre Opens
COVID-19 only further proved the need for empowering local healthcare experts
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Romania
Ionut: Separation, Isolation… Then a Smile
A mother manages cleft care through quarantine