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2021 Schedule
- San Salvador, El Salvador – January 2021
Cancelled due to COVID-19 - Guayaquil, Ecuador – March 2-12, 2021
Cancelled due to COVID-19 - Beirut, Lebanon – April 9-18, 2021
- Trujillo, Peru – May 21-30, 2021
- Guayaquil, Ecuador – September 7-19, 2021
- Beirut, Lebanon – November 10-20, 2021
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 GSF family—our patients, families, volunteers and supporters. While we have been able to provide comprehensive cleft care via Telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are eager to resume our missions in person because so many of our patients are awaiting care. We continue to monitor the public health situation at all of our mission locations and to work with onsite partners to determine the best course of action for our scheduled outreach programs.
Current Mission Locations
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Global Smile Foundation (GSF) volunteers have been involved with outreach cleft programs in Guayaquil for the past 33 years ... Read More
Trujillo, Peru
A tremendous amount of patients require care due to a lack of access to surgical care in the northern mountain regions of Peru. Global Smile Foundation ... Read More
Beirut, Lebanon
Cleft is one of the most common birth defects in the world and Lebanon has one of the highest rates of babies born with cleft ... 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 in conjunction with Hospital Nacional de Niños ... 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