Is Smile Train different from other cleft organizations?
Instead of sending teams of doctors and nurses on medical missions like every other American cleft charity, Smile Train empowers local doctors, nurses and hospitals to solve the problem themselves. This unique approach not only reduces the cost-per-surgery by 90+%, it is a far safer, faster, smarter and more productive way to help children in developing countries. Dollar-for-dollar we help ten times more children than mission groups and we do it every day of the year. By providing free equipment, free education and training and on-going financial support, Smile Train is helping very poor, but very proud communities become self-sufficient one smile at a time.
