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How one smile can change a life

After 17 years of exclusion, her new smile helped her community see the truth about clefts.

After 17 years of isolation, a smile set him free

Supporters experience Smile Train in action

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. 

Even when the whole world seemed against her, Damaris persisted. And won.

Cleft surgery was only one piece of Livingstone's journey from malnourished baby to star of his village.

Kamse was excited for his first day of school, but, when the day finally came, he was taunted all day long. Kamse ran home and begged his grandfather never to make him go back.

Meet the brother-sister duo transforming cleft care in the mountains of Ecuador.

Wendy was 17, single, and scared. She had just had a baby with a cleft, and any help seemed far, far away from her family's ranch in the remote Andes highlands. But Smile Train was there.