Operation Smile

Operation Smile is an international charity changing children’s lives one smile at a time. Not only are they a charity, Operation Smile prides itself on being a team of caring medical professionals with the common goal of providing safe and effective reconstructive surgery and associated medical care for children around the world born with facial deformities, such as cleft lip and cleft palate.

Statistics show that every 3 minutes a child is born with a cleft. Out of these children, 1 in 10 of them will die before they turn 1. Survivors are quite often not able to eat, smile or socialize. Some are rejected by their societies and communities too. To enable these children to lead productive lives they require surgery, and in most instances, their parents are unable to afford it.

Operation Smile believes every child deserves access to safe, quality surgical care. Every child deserves a future filled with hope