Every three minutes
a child is born with
a cleft condition.

Many children born with a cleft condition live where there is no access to safe cleft surgery. Without surgery, children struggle to eat, speak and some may even die.

At Operation Smile, our dream is for every child or adult to have the same opportunity to receive safe, high-quality cleft surgery and care. We aim to ensure lasting health for more people by improving local hospitals, training local health workers, and providing surgery and care closer to our patients’ communities so they can thrive.

For 40 years, our compassionate team of volunteer medical professionals and generous supporters have worked tirelessly toward this dream. Join us.

One Life Can Impact Thousands

Nearly a decade after Operation Smile gave his son a new smile, Don Alex Guerrero vowed to find every person in his country living with an untreated cleft condition so they, too, could be healed. Alex didn’t want any other family to go through what his family did. One life can impact so many.

Watch Don Alex’s Story:

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