Donor Stories

Operation Smile South Africa launched Operation 45, an initiative that provided life-changing care to 9-month-old Alexzander and 11-month-old Ofentse and featured their surgeries during the Soweto Derby.

Shandra Kight, a pre- and post-operative nurse, is one of those dedicated volunteers. Born with a cleft lip and cleft palate, she was determined to be a nurse, to work with children and to be an Operation Smile volunteer

9 year old Sam has already had 10 operations to correct his cleft lip and cleft palate and was refusing to have his latest operation later this year. His mum hit on the plan of showing him our website and see what would happen if you weren't able to have an operation. When looking at the photos and stories of some of our patients something wonderful happened and inspired Sam to help children less fortunate than him round the world ...

Congratulations Lily Johnson from everyone at Team Miles for Smiles.

Born with a cleft, chops her hair to help cancer patients and raises funds to give children new smiles

George is the youngest English Boy to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro

Endure the Challenge

Over 1,000km, over the Andes in a “motorbike with a sofa strapped to the back of it”.....

Solo sailor Roberto Westerman raced across the Atlantic, to raise as many smiles as he could

To mark the 20th birthday of DKNY, Donna Karan wanted to give something back