Smile Train UK Information

Smile Train is the world’s largest cleft charity with a sustainable approach to a single, solvable problem: cleft lip and palate. Many children around the world are living with untreated clefts. Most have difficulties eating, breathing, hearing, and speaking. Cleft repair surgery is simple, and the transformation is immediate. Our sustainable model provides training, funding and resources to empower local doctors in 90+ countries to provide 100%-free cleft repair surgery and comprehensive cleft care in their own communities. We use the “teach a man to fish” model, which focuses on training local medical professionals. Those doctors then go on to train other doctors creating a long-term, sustainable system. Patients see their transformed smile for the first time, parents cry tears of joy, lives and communities are changed forever. As a result of our efficiency and with the support of our donors and partners around the world, Smile Train has transformed the lives of more than two million children by giving them the power of a smile.