Longbir Ingti Kathar from Assam was our 17000th smile baby from the Northeast. Born with bilateral cleft lips, Longbir’s congenital facial deformity shocked even his parents! A heartbreaking sight for the couple since it was the first time they had ever seen a cleft baby! And if that’s not shocking enough for the unfortunate family, […]

Remember Miriam? Just about a year ago, we have introduced you to the little girl, who was only 3 years of age, then. But in spite of her tender age, she bore fathomless pain since birth, with complete blindness in one eye and defect in the other eye together with severe cleft lip and palate […]

Shanti a middle-aged lady from Assam has a story to tell like no others we have come across. Her 45-year long wait for transformation from cleft to smile reinstates faith in humanity and even more upon the saying, “patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.” Born with a bilateral cleft, Shanti has spent years […]

When life closes a door, it usually opens a window! Ummera’s condition has inspired us to go extra miles to open the window of opportunity she was searching for! Her case is one of the most challenging cases of facial deformities we ever witnessed! It’s not just a cleft lip or palate occurring in a child, […]

To mark the completion of our 100th Mission this year, completing delivery of over 38000 cleft surgeries to children across the nation, we organized ‘A Mile for Smile’ Walkathon in Kolkata on 17th March, at Red road (near Brigade parade ground). The event was widely promoted across the city through on-ground activation and hoarding campaigns […]

Mission Smile had entered into a partnership with IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.) to restructure 300 smiles of patients with cleft deformities in Assam & Meghalaya in Nov’2018. Under this agreement, IOCL supported 50% of the cost and balance 50% of the cost is borne by Assam and Meghalaya Governments under PPP model. Under IOCL […]

Our Mission in Puducherry was organized in partnership with Muthoot Pappachan Foundation (CSR arm of Muthoot Fincorp Ltd.), between 24th -27th February at New Medical Centre, Puducherry to deliver free cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries to the children and young adults of Puducherry & Tamil Nadu.  This was the fourth consecutive time that New […]

The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal visited Mission Smile’s Guwahati Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre (GC4) at MMC Hospital, Guwahati on 20th February 2019. He interacted with patients undergoing treatment at GC4, congratulated our team and conveyed his best wishes for our continued success. Here are glimpses from his welcome visit to GC4.   […]

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. […]