WHAT IS CLEFT
A cleft is an opening in the lip and/or palate that occurs early in pregnancy where the developing facial structure does not fuse together completely.
Living With Cleft
Without treatment, children born with cleft are at greater risk of poor health, malnutrition, and poverty. Many children are bullied and their families are ostrascized by society.
Patient Stories
The comprehensive cleft care that GSF volunteers provide is life-changing for our patients. See the heart-warming stories that your support makes possible.
Outreach Medical Programs
We provide comprehensive care for patients born with cleft lip/palate in underserved communities throughout the world.
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Global Smile Foundation (GSF) volunteers have been involved with humanitarian cleft programs in Ecuador for nearly 4 decades and we are now the largest provider of comprehensive cleft care in Ecuador ...
Trujillo, Peru
Many of our patients come from rural areas surrounding the city, where one third of the population lives in poverty ...
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 palate ...
San Salvador, El Salvador
GSF volunteers have been providing much-needed cleft care in San Salvador since 2006 through annual outreach cleft programs ...
Our Vision
GSF envisions is a world where no child or adult suffers needlessly from untreated cleft.
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