Children with Clefts Need Your Support
Your monthly gift helps guarantee lifesaving care for children and allows us to spend less time and fewer resources on fundraising.
Changing the World One Smile at a Time
Over the past 25 years, we have transformed the lives of more than 1.5 million children. With your help, we aim to greatly expand our reach in the next five years, putting more children than ever before on track to a better future.
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What are Clefts?
Did you know that clefts cause difficulties eating, breathing, hearing, and speaking? Learn more about clefts.
Get Involved
Whatever your passion, there’s a way to turn it into smiles.
Where We Work
Learn more about Smile Train’s programs in 75+ countries.
Patients and Families
Learn more about cleft care and explore our patient stories and resources.
Understanding Clefts
When a baby is born with a cleft, their family should immediately locate the nearest cleft team to explore their best treatment options.
Patient Resources
Smile Train aims to support families worldwide by creating, connecting, and sharing resources about cleft care.
Find Help
Cleft treatment is 100%-free for Smile Train patients. In many cases, free transportation to/from Smile Train treatment partners may also be available.
Medical Professionals
Learn more about the medical professionals we partner with and explore free resources.
Partner Programs
All of our partners are united by a common goal: helping children who have no place else to turn. If this is your goal, too, we’d like to partner with you.
Training Programs
Smile Train offers our partners a range of clinical training opportunities and resources in surgery, anesthesia, nursing, and comprehensive cleft care.
Grant Programs
Smile Train funds more than 1,000 partners and programs throughout the world that help children in need receive treatment they could otherwise never afford.
About Us
Smile Train is the world’s largest cleft-focused organization, with a model of true sustainability — providing training, funding, and resources to empower local medical professionals in 75+ countries to provide 100%-free cleft surgery and other forms of essential cleft care in their own communities.