Operation Smile Canada

The moment when a mother sees her newborn baby for the first time is a joyous, special occasion. However, sometimes there are instances when that special moment is followed by…

Abandoned by both her parents, Maria Eulália Cabralda Costa faced incomprehensible pain during her first five years of life in Brazil. She was born with a cleft lip that scarred…

Rowena thinks her daughter, one year-old Shaina, was born with a cleft lip because she fell from a hammock when she was seven months pregnant. “I feel sorry for my…

Born in 2005 with a bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, Dina Alexander has struggled to communicate for nearly a decade. Just last month, Dina’s grandmother Benigna heard on the…

A young mother wearing a white shawl sat patiently on a bench with sadness overwhelming her face. As she waited for her child’s medical evaluation at the Operation Smile medical…