Child Health

  • From Six Months Old to Today

    From Six Months Old to Today

    Qasim was six months old when he first came to our hospital in Kabul. This is his story. Here is something we love to say: since 2006, Smile Train has partnered with our hospital in Kabul to provide free cleft lip and palate surgery to children and families with nowhere else to turn. Their…

  • A New Smile for Ainuddin

    A New Smile for Ainuddin

    Ainuddin was born in Afghanistan with a cleft lip and palate—a condition that made even the simplest acts of infancy painfully difficult.

  • Taking care to the provinces

    Taking care to the provinces

    The team came across a 7-year-old girl named Safia who was suffering from a cleft lip and offered free surgery.

  • Be Team International Restores a Family’s Joy

    Be Team International Restores a Family’s Joy

    Although tiny Gul Naz was born to a poor family in Afghanistan’s Logar Province, it should have been a joyous occasion…

  • A New Face, A New Future

    A New Face, A New Future

    Since 2006, Smile Train has partnered with our hospital in Kabul to offer free cleft surgery to children and families who have nowhere else to turn. To date, that partnership has made possible more than 15,224 surgeries, along with the training of Afghan plastic surgeons and the development of nutritional and speech therapy programs…

  • A Miracle in Afghanistan

    A Miracle in Afghanistan

    The smaller of the twin babies seen in the bassinet, Zakra Hanifa had been born at…