Lighting Up the World with Smiles for 25 Years
2,000,000+
cleft surgeries sponsored
Smile Train's Global impact over the last 25 years
1,100+
partner centers
2,100+
partner healthcare professionals
95+
countries
60,000+
training opportunities for medical workers
Looking Back at 25 Years of Changing the World One Smile at a Time
All of our successes since our founding in 1999 stem from two sources: the tireless commitment of donors like you and the world-changing vision of one man: Charles B. Wang.
The history of Smile Train is, at its core, a story about the power each of us has to change the world.
Let's relive it together.
2000
Our first patient, Wang Li, receives the cleft treatment that changes her life forever in Nanjing, China.
2014
We sponsor our 1,000,000th cleft surgery, on a child named Osawa in Tanzania.
2024
Father and son Alim and Rajib, from a remote village in Indonesia, receive Smile Train's 2,000,000th — and 2,000,001st — cleft surgeries.