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![Smile Train UK supporter Christian Hadjipateras](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-05/Christian.png?itok=ttoO6HAv)
United Kingdom
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.
![A baby with her mother at FISULAB](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-04/baby-with-mother-dentsply-sirona-fisulab-free-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-colombia-smile-train.jpg?itok=AJlaB8AL)
Colombia
Dentsply Sirona Donation Ushers In the Future of Cleft Care
Dentsply Sirona Donation Ushers In the Future of Cleft Care
![Maxi's mother holding him just after his free cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-04/maxi-with-mom-after-free-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-paraguay-smile-train-50.jpg?itok=pNAt5Ymr)
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
![Sister Najjuka celebrates with a patient's family](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-03/sister-najjuka-with-patient-family-free-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-mbara-uganda.jpg?itok=Q59QNMzZ)
Uganda
Sister Dr Liliana Najjuka: Miracle Worker, Smile Maker
Why Smile Train's local model matters, from one of our most inspiring partners
![Opeyemi riding on his mother's back](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-02/opeyemi-free-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-smile-train-nigeria-50.jpg?itok=QliTmTFc)
Nigeria
Opeyemi: Families, Like Smiles, Come in Many Forms
His father abandoned the family when he was born with a cleft. His mother never stopped trying to make him smile
![Adelina and Ionut](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-01/ionut-with-mother-snuggle-after-free-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-romania.jpg?itok=yr02Ni-2)
Romania
Ionut: Separation, Isolation… Then a Smile
A mother manages cleft care through quarantine
![Kellen holds Eric after his cleft sugeries](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-01/eric-and-kellen-after-free-cleft-lip-cleft-palate-surgery-smile-train-uganda.jpg?itok=iyOiOqzq)
Uganda
Eric: Hope is the Best Gift of All
A cleft mother’s fraught journey to care and dignity for her son and herself
![Steve Anthony with his three sisters atop Mt. Snowdon](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-01/steve-anthony-smile-train-uk-with-family.jpg?itok=_IVSxomt)
United Kingdom
Steve Anthony: “We Rise by Helping Others”
Meet this entrepreneur, car enthusiast, and cleft hero from Chesterfield
![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)
United Kingdom
Spreading Christmas Miracles From Mayfair to the World and Back Again
Memories of a truly inspirational evening
![Comrade Olubunmi Lawal-Aiyedun](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-12/oral-health-training-group%20%284%29.png?itok=8hl26D85)
![Mouhamed with his parents](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-12/mouhamed-with-family-before-free-cleft-lip-palate-surgery-cameroon.jpg?itok=KUB5_Vri)
Cameroon
A Son’s Cleft, a Father’s Destiny
How Mouhamed’s cleft might forever change cleft care in Cameroon