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

Conflict in Afghanistan has forced 700,000 Afghans to leave their homes in 2022, adding to the 5.5 million displaced over the past years.

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

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…

Dr. Homa Dost, the Head of Cure Hospital’s Obstetric Fistula program…

When asked why his family emigrated to Pakistan in the early 1990s, Dr. Burhan’s simple answer was, ‘It was during the time of the civil war with the Mujahedeen. There was shooting, bombs and rockets falling all around us.