Changing the World One Smile at a Time
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Since 1999 Smile Train has helped hundreds of thousands of poor children born with cleft, they have trained tens of thousands of medical professionals and established hundreds of programs in 75 of the world’s poorest countries. Smile Train is headquartered in New York City and they also have offices in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, Russia, South Africa and Vietnam.
For those of you who do not know: A cleft is a birth defect and often the #1 birth defect in most developing countries. A cleft lip is an opening in the upper lip between a baby’s mouth and nose. A cleft palate is created when the roof of the mouth has a hole in it. Babies can be born with a cleft lip or palate or both. Babies are born with clefts everywhere in the world including the U.S. But you don’t see clefts very often in the U.S. and Europe because the surgery is usually performed soon after birth, unlike developing countries where most of the families are too poor to afford surgery and the government will not provide free surgery.
Clefts affect more than 4 million very poor children. The cure: a $250 surgery that takes 45 minutes. Not much to change a child’s life, is it? And once it is cured, it never comes back. Smile Train has funded 500,000 surgeries in the last ten years.
Go to their website and see how you can make a difference in a child’s life.
http://www.smiletrain.org/site/PageServer
For those of you who do not know: A cleft is a birth defect and often the #1 birth defect in most developing countries. A cleft lip is an opening in the upper lip between a baby’s mouth and nose. A cleft palate is created when the roof of the mouth has a hole in it. Babies can be born with a cleft lip or palate or both. Babies are born with clefts everywhere in the world including the U.S. But you don’t see clefts very often in the U.S. and Europe because the surgery is usually performed soon after birth, unlike developing countries where most of the families are too poor to afford surgery and the government will not provide free surgery.
Clefts affect more than 4 million very poor children. The cure: a $250 surgery that takes 45 minutes. Not much to change a child’s life, is it? And once it is cured, it never comes back. Smile Train has funded 500,000 surgeries in the last ten years.
Go to their website and see how you can make a difference in a child’s life.
http://www.smiletrain.org/site/PageServer
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