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My Marathon Summer
Our Manager of Team EMPOWER reflects on three marathons in three weeks
The Sunrisers Race Towards a New Day for Children with Clefts
If you’re going to travel 4,000 miles to run a marathon, you do it for a cause
Smiling at the End of the World
How Smile Train is bringing local cleft care to the edge of human civilisation
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Mariane Goes is Teaching the World to Fish
Meet our Director for Education and Training for Latin America and the Caribbean
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The Wait Is Over: Paraguay's First Local, Sustainable Cleft Care Centre Opens
Damaris is Not an Outcast
After 17 years of exclusion, her new smile helped her community see the truth about clefts.
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At Cleft Con 2021, Vulnerability is Strength
“It's amazing what your cleft journey will do to your life when you embrace it.”
Vivian Exemplifies Beauty Inside and Out
When Vivian started school, the kids laughed at her so much she didn't want to live. Then she met someone who told her she should become a model.
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Troy Reinhart: 20 Years Of Smiles
Our longest-tenured employee reflects on two decades of making smiles
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Staff Spotlight: Priya Desai
Priya Desai, Smile Train’s Director of Strategy and Evaluation talks about what motivated her to join Smile Train.