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 and Tamil Nadu.  This was the fourth 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.   […]

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 2019 – activity-filled months ahead. The Vadodara mission was our 3rd mission at our partner hospital – ISHA Hospital.   […]

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 an Assamese community who are highly superstitious. When Aman was born with a cleft lip deformity, his petrified mother had no clue on […]

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 a facial deformity she had never seen before. His mother had difficulty feeding the baby. As a result, the little one was deprived of basic nutrients. As years went […]

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 surgeons, […]

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 unergone 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 our […]

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 […]