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Chile
Amelie Leaves Her Room and Enters the Spotlight
“Thank you for helping me sing and make friends and live my dream”.
![Dr Tsitsi Sithole](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2024-03/dr-tsitsi-sithole-headshot-50.jpg?itok=c1LGQ6Pc)
Zimbabwe
Dr Tsitsi Sithole Makes History by Ensuring the Future
Meet Zimbabwe’s first female paediatric anaesthetist
![Adjoa smiling and holding a picture of herself before cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2023-12/adjoa-50.jpg?itok=vtSW6vfv)
United States
Adjoa Survived to Smile
She spent 45 years shackled by her cleft. Now, she feels she can do anything
![Sunil at the top of a stone staircase on the ascent to Everest Base Camp](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2023-11/sunil-50_0.jpg?itok=a2egSK6y)
Nepal
CEO Sunil Tuli Climbs to Everest Basecamp for Smile Train Patients
His dutiful excursion inspired an entire global industry
![Simrik holding a picture of herself before cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2023-11/simrik-50.jpg?itok=5qd6X2QW)
Nepal
Simrik’s Future is Bright as Her Smile
For this girl of the Himalayas, no goal is too lofty
![Dr. Judy Ward and another doctor sitting down with a Simulare cleft model on the table. They are talking to Dr. Juan Carlos Zambrano who is standing over them and leaning on their chairs](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2023-08/50-50%20%282%29.jpg?itok=icjeuQ3L)
Chile
Smile Train's Inaugural LIT Congress
In Santiago, Chile, 200 medical partners from across Latin America united for a three-day cleft care confab
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United States
Priya Desai: A Positive Disruptive Force in Global Health
A peek at life at the intersection of maths and magic
Egypt
Fares Speaks Up
Fares felt closed off from the world, but a local Smile Train partner is helping him express himself
![Jenious holding a picture of himself as a baby before cleft surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2023-05/jenious-50.jpg?itok=7P3JnpMM)
Nepal
Building Robots for Good? That’s Jenious
This budding inventor has known technology’s potential to save lives from the day he was born
![Dr Ann Kummer smiling](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2023-04/ann-kummer-50.jpg?itok=abNN_0-d)
United States
Dr Ann Kummer Wrote the Book on Cleft Care Management — Literally
Why this cleft speech pioneer is so passionate about donating to Smile Train
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Egypt
Dr Sally Adel: High-Achieving Women Can Have It All
She’s a mom, professor, MD, speech therapist,, swallowing and feeding therapist, and our hero