Operation Smile Canada
Colombia
We are here at “The Little House” — Operation Smile Colombia’s comprehensive care centre, where children, like 5 month old Jhony, received the gift of a new smile. Born with bi-lateral cleft lip and cleft palate, Jhony’s parents knew nothing about cleft conditions and worried…
Madagascar
Fear overwhelmed Clara’s mother as she laid eyes on her baby for the first time. Clara was born with a severe cleft lip and cleft palate. Her mother didn’t dare…
Honduras
Cintia didn’t understand what was wrong with her daughter, Britany, when she was born. Her daughter was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate, deformities she had never seen…
Mozambique
Without its global network of selfless, caring and generous volunteers, Operation Smile simply wouldn’t exist. The organization’s free, life-changing cleft surgeries are only made possible by people who unite from…
Colombia
Operation Smile believes in offering the most comprehensive care possible at our medical missions and care centers around the world. After more than three decades of listening to the emotional…
Nicaragua
Early in the morning, Operation Smile’s team of medical specialists arrive at Hospital Alemán Nicaragüense to prepare for the two surgeries to be performed that day. Iris is one of…
Nicaragua
As soon as Iris gets off the bus and, together with her mother, moves through the crowds of people at a bus station in Managua, Nicaragua, she hides. Walking behind…
Ghana
From Cape Coast to Koforidua, the Operation Smile Ghana team has rapidly changed the way people living in the most remote and impoverished places in the country are accessing cleft…
