Recently, The Smile Train announced five new partnerships with various Indian organizations that will provide more than 12,000 children with cleft lip and palate surgeries over the next three years. Through our partnerships with a myriad of organizations that are dedicated to helping children born with clefts, the Smile Train helps to deliver smiles in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Venezuela, the United States and Zambia. More than 5,000 people call the toll free number for help every year. In addition, The Smile Train funds Smile Projects at wide variety of domestic cleft support organizations that serve local communities. The Smile Train would like to provide assistance to each and every child born with a cleft lip and palate who cannot afford surgical repair.
Partnerships are the core of The Smile Train.
It's an unprecedented coalition of talent and experience that is attacking the problem of clefts from all angles. The Smile Train is unique in its comprehensive approach to cleft lip and palate care by offering free treatment for children, free training for doctors and funding of research efforts to find causes and cures for cleft. The Smile Train relies entirely upon private support. We do not receive any funding from the government. Due to the generous support of Charles B. Wang, Chairman, Computer Associates International, Inc., all administrative costs are covered.