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… Apps Mobile Applications We leverage mobile technology to accelerate our patients’ access to comprehensive cleft care and bring essential … currently available in English (“Smile Train Speech Games and Practice”) and Spanish (“Smile Train Habla y Lenguaje”). Apple Google App to Connect Patients to Care Smile Train has developed a mobile and web-based app across seven languages …
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… Celebrities Celebrity Supporters Wondering Who Supports Smile Train? Smile Train's global impact would not be possible without our dedicated celebrity supporters. We are proud that these individuals have chosen to help us change the world one smile at a time! Global Ambassadors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Andrea Meza Catriona Gray Chanel Iman Charlotte Flair Christie Brinkley Elizabeth Gillies Elizabeth Hurley …
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… Bringing the Wow to Wau Dec 12, 2024 Bringing the Wow to Wau Meet some of our patients from South Sudan At Smile Train, we believe that high-quality, sustainable, comprehensive cleft care should be accessible to anyone who needs … treatment for patients in more than 75 countries through our “teach a person to fish” model . In certain regions, Smile Train-sponsored care is one of the few cleft treatment options available — if not the only one. Such is the case in … Help. He was soon scheduled for surgery. Gallery Prev Next “Witnessing his newfound confidence, no longer hiding his smile, and improving in speech — it's truly heartening to see,” Angilina said afterward. Jacob’s sister also had her …
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… Joshua! Say “Sekerera,” Joshua! Your support transforms children, their families, and entire communities This February, Smile Train’s Senior Manager, Communications, Derek Kwait, traveled to Zambia to collect stories of our patients and … you, one he feels truly illuminates the transformations — small and large, expected and unexpected — your support for Smile Train makes possible around the world each day. It was another cloudless day so hot that you could feel the … to care enough to leave the shade. We turned a corner, and there was Josephine, welcoming us to her home with a warm smile and her sons at her knees — Favour, age five, and the man of the hour, three-year-old Joshua. She motioned for us …
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… Bioethics. From her home in Panama, she flew to the Philippines, where she would spend the next five months supporting Smile Train programs as a Community Health Program Specialist at long-time Smile Train partner Philippine Band of Mercy. Her work was part of GSK’s innovative PULSE volunteer program, which allows … an opportunity within the organization by the company’s partners. Ingrid was the first PULSE volunteer to work with Smile Train as part of Smile Train and GSK’s multi-year partnership . As a nutrition expert, a former international …
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… had faced with Swastik — getting him to eat. Milk would often come out of his nose or choke him rather than go to his stomach. “It was scary to think that your child has been hungry and weak for days,” Reena said. But with a new feeding …
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… Education and Training for Latin America & the Caribbean in January of 2022, she could not avoid the butterflies in her stomach. There was a nagging voice inside her head that doubted her competence. It questioned her ability to fully live …
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… A smiling doctor hands her a tiny, screeching bundle in a striped blanket. Delicately, and with an even brighter smile, she cradles it in her arms. Putting her child to her breast for the first time, Zinash can already see that her … she still loved her precious child, even more than she ever dreamed possible. Marsillas has always had an irresistible smile The moment Zinash put Marsillas to her breast, she choked. Further attempts at feeding produced only further … no choice but to break off contact with them. Thankfully, Zinash and Getu weren’t alone for long. They soon discovered Smile Train partner Yekatit 12 Hospital right in Addis Ababa, where the staff ran to embrace them and their special baby …
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… Sam Young: Frequent Smiler, Constant Inspiration Sam Young: Frequent Smiler, Constant Inspiration Every month when the donation pops up on my statement... I’m able to put things back into perspective. Samantha Young, of Australia, shares her inspiration for becoming a Frequent Smiler, one of Smile Train’s monthly donors committed to helping save the lives of children with clefts every day. I was …
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… and with limited resources, to provide the safest, highest-quality treatment to patients in their own communities. At Smile Train, we’ve known the answer to this question from the start — the time to rethink the mission model was decades ago. Smile Train was founded in 1999 to champion a more effective model of care that invests in local patients and providers … 1.5 million surgical treatments over the last 20 years — a figure that dwarfs that of fly-in mission groups. “To date, Smile Train has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in strengthening local health systems, supported more than 1.5 …
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… Mir's Message of Hope Mir's Message of Hope “You will find a solution for your child.” When Nur’s mother, Mir, discovered her son … able to call me mother? Will I ever be able to hear him talk? “The doctors kept telling me that it would be fine, that there is a lot of treatment for clefts. But as a mother, how can I stop worrying about my own child?” Mir’s doctors …