Mrinmoy Bezbaruah came to us when he was only a year old. He had both cleft lip and palate. His lip was repaired during his first visit but he had to wait five more years before his palate could be reconstructed. On 20th December, 2018, Mrinmoy went through his palate repair surgery. His teary eyed […]

A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed between Mission Smile and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) on 29.10.2019. As a result of this partnership 245 children from the northeast – 100 in Assam, 75 in Meghalaya and 35 each in Nagaland and Mizoram – will receive their smiles . Dignitaries who attended the MoA signing included Kallol […]

Mr. Neville Ching, accompanied by his wife Lucy and their two children, visited Mission Smile from 21st to 28th October to get a  first-hand experience of the transformation brought about by Mission Smile.  Mr. Ching and his company, Capsicum Re have been our partners in bringing smiles across India since 2016. Mr. Ching spent a […]

National Health Mission (NHM) of Uttarakhand signed an  MoU with Mission Smile on 31.10.2019. The terms of this MoU states that NHM will henceforth refer all cleft patients to our outreach centre in AIIMS, Rishikesh.  NHM will identify the patients at the ground level through their RBSK (Rashtriya Bal Swathya Karyakram) teams and  refer them […]

  11-months-old Bornali Pegu belongs to a poor family of marginal businessmen from Jonai Village in Dhemaji district of Assam. The birth of the little one was sadly, not a joyous occasion for the family. When the family discovered that the child was born with a cleft lip and palate, they were shocked and cursed […]

From 21st to 25th  September 2019 Mission Smile in partnership with Muthoot Pappachan Foundation reached out to the residents of Gulbarga with the goal  of putting smiles back on the faces of at least 50 children. This was done a the  ESIC Medical College and Hospital an imposing institute that resembled a palace rather than a Hospital. […]

Mocking someone for their facial or physical deformity is a common social evil. Yet you cannot escape being ridiculed for your ‘different’ looks. Unfortunately, such is our social scenario. Now imagine a kindergarten child being made fun of for looking ‘different’ from the rest of his classmates! What impact would it have on the young […]

Talim, a 2 year-5 months old boy born with cleft lip and palate has a story to tell like no others! He belongs to an extremely poverty-stricken family from Nadia district. Both his parents are handicapped since birth. While his mother is deaf and dumb, his father is lame. Thus, the family has no fixed […]

Adrija, a 3-year-11-months old girl, was born with type 7 cleft–a rare type of cleft condition. Adrija belongs to a lower-middle-class family. Since birth, the girl child faced constant indifference and discrimination within her family. Her grandmother held her mother responsible for giving birth to a child with cleft deformity. Yet, in spite of all […]

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. It was a heartbreaking sight for the couple; it was the first time they had ever seen a cleft baby. The entire village converged upon their home to see […]

Remember Miriam? Just about a year ago, we had 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 of […]