2023 Schedule
- San Salvador, El Salvador: January 13 – 22, 2023
- Guayaquil, Ecuador: March 6 – 19, 2023 (two-week mission)
- Beirut, Lebanon: March 29 – April 09, 2023
- Trujillo, Perú: May 19 – 28, 2023
- Guayaquil, Ecuador: September 5 – 17, 2023 (two-week mission)
- Beirut, Lebanon: November 8 – 19, 2023
2024 Schedule
- San Salvador, El Salvador: January 12 – 21, 2024
- Guayaquil, Ecuador:
- Week 1: March 5 – 10, 2024
- Week 2: March 08 – 17, 2024
- Beirut, Lebanon: April 10 – 21, 2024
- Trujillo, Perú: May 17 – 26, 2024
- Guayaquil, Ecuador:
- Week 1: September 03 – 08, 2024
- Week 2: September 06 – 15 2024
- Beirut, Lebanon: November 06 – 17, 2024
Current mission locations marked with a orange dot, past missions marked with a yellow dot.
Global Smile Foundation’s top priority is the safety and wellbeing of our patients and their families, and our volunteers. We continue to monitor the public health situation at all of our mission locations and work with onsite partners to determine the best course of action for our scheduled outreach programs.
Mission Locations
Guayaquil, Ecuador
GSF has become the largest provider of cleft care in Ecuador. We conduct two annual outreach programs and opened a year-round Cleft Center in 2014 ... Read More
Trujillo, Peru
Many of our patients come from rural areas surrounding the city, where one third of the population lives in poverty ... Read More
Beirut, Lebanon
The Middle East has one of the highest rates of babies born with cleft, approximately 1 in every 420 babies has a cleft lip and/or ... Read More
San Salvador, El Salvador
GSF volunteers have been providing much-needed cleft care in San Salvador since 2006 through annual outreach cleft programs ... Read More
Past Mission Locations
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
In 2012, GSF partnered with West African sponsor, FATOM, to provide cleft care in Abidjan ... Read More
Bamako, Mali
Global Smile Foundation has completed two successful missions to Mali, operating out of Gabriel Toure Hospital in Bamako ... Read More
Dakar and Thies, Senegal
Senegal has a large number of untreated cleft patients. Although the incidence of clefts in Africa is not among the developing world’s highest, the number of ... Read More
Esmeraldas, Ecuador
In 2011, GSF collaborated with the Ecuadorian Navy on a Mission Trip to the area. Hospital Naval provides services not only for the Ecuadorian Navy, ... Read More
Macapá, Brazil
GSF first collaborated with Sao Camilo Hospital in 2016, finding an unmet need for cleft care. Sao Camilo Hospital is a private hospital that serves ... Read More
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has thousands of unrepaired cleft cases, similar to other African countries in the region. Due to the lack of resources, skills, and funding, many ... Read More
Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
GSF partnered with Hospitalito Atitlan in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. GSF Board Member Alan Silverstein and numerous other individual and corporate sponsors generously offered financial support for ... Read More