![Mariane Goes](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-07/mariane-goes-cleft-week-natal-brazil-day-one.jpg?itok=o-GCw-2-)
Mariane Goes is Teaching the World to Fish
Meet our Director for Education and Training for Latin America and the Caribbean
![Smile Train UK supporter Christian Hadjipateras](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-05/Christian.png?itok=ttoO6HAv)
Cleft Lip and Palate Awareness Week: A Letter to My Younger Self
To mark Cleft Lip and Palate Awareness Week (7-15 May 2022), Christian pens a letter to his younger self on his facial difference journey and gives his 15-year-old self words of encouragement.
![Ndindai needs cleft lip surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-04/ndindai-before-smile-train-cleft-surgery.jpg?itok=P2o8GDsB)
Out of School and Out of Sight for 17 Years, Ndindai is Now Embracing Life
How one smile can change a life
Damaris is Not an Outcast
After 17 years of exclusion, her new smile helped her community see the truth about clefts.
Kioko Can Finally Leave the Family Farm
After 17 years of isolation, a smile set him free
![FISULAB's Smile Train Choir performs in traditional Colombian dress](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-12/smile-train-uk-christmas-carol-concert-fisulab-free-cleft-surgery-colombia.jpg?itok=C3wQsfYR)
Spreading Christmas Miracles From Mayfair to the World and Back Again
![Journey of Smiles participants and Smile Train staff members join their fists together](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-12/kenya-jos-2021-hands-in-center-50.jpg?itok=nxQ_J23O)
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.
![sokim](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-12/sokim-50.jpg?itok=3YUwZsDu)
Sokim: A Moment of Panic, a Lifetime of Smiles
Your support for Smile Train heals patients’ parents and communities, too
![Benjamin looks up to the sky](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-11/benjamin-k-thinks-outside-after-free-smile-train-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-kenya.jpg?itok=j3pLG0zF)
Benjamin’s Smile Has Overcome The Unimaginable
And he's only four years old.
![Vicente with his mom](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-11/vicente-with-mother-in-trees-after-smile-train-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-chile-50.jpg?itok=p4p3Ys6X)
Vicente Is Stronger Than Fear
A mother's love + Smile Train and GSK = one confident young man