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What Makes You Smile…

Every three minutes, it is estimated that a child is born with a cleft condition. One in 10 children born with a cleft will die before their first birthday.

With a presence in over 60 countries, Operation Smile provides free life-changing surgeries for children in need worldwide. Operation Smile’s network of more than 5,000 medical volunteers donate their time and talent to improve the health and lives of children born with facial deformities. Since 1982, Operation Smile has given more than 2 million patient evaluations and provided over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

It takes as little as 45 minutes to save a child from a lifetime of pain, shame and isolation. You can give them a chance to go to school, make friends and have a bright future. Just $240 will help provide a surgery for a child suffering from cleft lip.

PLEASE help make 2012 an even more successful year of missions and surgeries. Every little bit makes a big difference. The people who’s lives you help change may never know your name, but they will never forget the act of kindness you bestowed upon them.

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED & HELP

Join Operation Smile as a Smile Partner

Your ongoing support of $18 a month — just 60 cents a day — will transform the life of a child suffering from cleft lip or cleft palate. Your support will help Operation Smile train in-country doctors who will continue to provide free surgeries to children in need year-round.

https://secure.operationsmile.org/site/Donation2?df_id=10920&10920.donation=form1

** If you’d like to become a Monthly Smile Partner and pay in monthly installments, please call 1-888-OPSMILE

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