We are grateful to all of our supporters, volunteers, and friends who have been part of Global Smile Foundation’s 35 years of providing humanitarian cleft care services! Thank you for supporting our mission to ensure that high quality comprehensive cleft care is...
The 5th International Comprehensive Cleft Care Workshop (CCCW) will be held October 11-14, 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We are excited to bring together 65 international speakers from 19 different countries to offer their expertise in cleft surgery, dentistry,...
Alessia and her family have been part of GSF since 2016 when they came to our mission in Trujillo for her cleft lip repair. We have loved watching her grow up during her annual visits since then. Due to COVID-19, we hadn’t seen her since our 2018. We were...
Caleb has grown up so much in the three years since his first surgery with GSF! Our team met him in 2019 when he was only four months old and performed a complex surgical procedure called a Premaxillary Setback (see note below). In 2021, our team saw Caleb again for a...
During the November 2021 mission in Lebanon, GSF and GSF-MENA volunteers met 8-month old Abdelmenaem and were instantly charmed by his sweet smile. He is youngest of 5 children and his parents did not expect him to be born with a cleft lip. They were grateful and...
