Our 4th consecutive Cleft Surgical Mission in Gulbarga was organized in partnership with Muthoot Pappachan Foundation (CSR arm of Muthoot Fincorp Ltd.) at ESIC Medical College and Hospital between 21st and 25th September 2019 to deliver free cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries to the children and young adults of Karnataka. The mission was inaugurated […]

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 […]

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, 2019, at Red road (near Brigade parade ground). The event was widely promoted across the city through on-ground activation and hoarding […]

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 November, 2018. Under this agreement, IOCL supported 50% of the cost and the other 50% of the cost was borne by Assam and Meghalaya Governments under PPP model. […]

Our Mission in Puducherry was organized in partnership with Muthoot Pappachan Foundation (CSR arm of Muthoot Fincorp Ltd.), between 24th and 27th February.2019 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 […]

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.   […]