Our first mission of 2019, organised at ISHA Hospital in Vadodara during 19th -25th January, in partnership with Muthoot Pappachan Foundation, turned out to be a big success and gave us the perfect start to activity-filled months ahead. The Vadodara mission was our 3rd mission at our partner hospital – ISHA Hospital.   The mission […]

Superstitions associated with Cleft, makes life difficult not only for a child born with Cleft but also for his/her parents. Aman’s story is a perfect example of this. Aman’s family belongs to a community in Assam where people are extremely conscious about spirituality. When Aman was born with a cleft lip deformity, his petrified mother […]

Hasina, an eight-year-old girl from the northeast state of Meghalaya was born with cleft lip and palate deformities. She is one of the twins born to parents Polen and Fatima. While one of the twins was hale and hearty and was growing up normally, cleft deformity restricted Hasina’s early days of development needing a cleft […]

Amzad, a 7 year old boy from Garo Hills in Meghalaya, was born with cleft lip and palate. His mother was shocked to find her first-born with facial deformity she had never seen before. Till little Amzad attained 3 years, his mother faced difficulty in feeding him due to his cleft lip and palate deformities. […]

On 11th December 2018, Mission Smile has entered into a partnership with IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited) to restructure 300 smiles of patients with cleft deformities in Assam & Meghalaya. The IOCL support will bring smiles to 200 cleft patients of Assam & 100 patients from Meghalaya who are unfortunate to be born with cleft deformities. The MOU was signed on […]

Our 12th Mission in the north eastern state of Tripura was organized from 10th-15th November 2018 at Dr B R Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital in Agartala in partnership with ONGC (Tripura) and supported by RBSK & NHM (Government of Tripura).    The team consisted of medical as well as non-medical volunteers including – plastic […]

The Discovery Channel team came to film the amazing transformation of a child named Miriam from Assam, who had major cleft condition and had successfully received her surgery during the Difficult Cases Surgery Week at Guwahati Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre (GC4) earlier this year. Little Miriam will be featured in Discovery Channel’s medical documentary. It’s a proud moment for all of us which includes […]

Waisong is a cleft baby from an interior village in Assam. He belongs to a family living in extreme poverty. Most unfortunately, the community he belongs to blamed his mother for his cleft lip deformity. She was accused of either not following community traditions meant for women to follow during her pregnancy or that she […]

Arup, a little boy from Assam was born with both cleft lip and cleft palate deformities. His parents never expected their son to be born with cleft. Due to their ignorance about cleft, the parents found difficulty in handling the cleft baby. Adding to their woes, continuous back talks and gossip forced them to keep […]

Our recruitment coordinator Vipul Christian from Vadodara while educating the workers of ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) on cleft deformities and its treatment, came to know about an eleven-month-old child named Vivek from a nearby village, who was born with cleft lip and palate deformities. He was informed by ASHA workers that the little boy’s […]

Our 98th Mission in India was organized from 23-27 Sept’18 at Kolkata Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre, in Flemming Hospital, Topsia, Kolkata in partnership with Muthoot Pappachan Foundation. This was also our 22nd medical mission organized in partnership with Muthoot Pappachan Group and 14th Mission in Kolkata. Total 40 medical & non-medical volunteers from Russia, China, […]

TOPCEM Cement has sponsored 24 cleft surgeries (i.e. 12 surgeries from Meghalaya and 12 surgeries from Assam) at Guwahati Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre. This was formally announced in a joint statement at a news conference organized at Pragati Manor in Guwahati. Among the dignitaries present were – Bajrang Lohia, Director, Topcem Cement & Col. Shivaji Samaddar, COO, Mission Smile. […]