Our Purpose

Operation Smile in Ethiopia repairs childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Together, we create smiles, change lives, heal humanity.

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Approximately one in every 500 babies is born with a cleft lip and/or cleft palate.
In Ethiopia, there are many children who never receive this life-changing surgery.
In as little as 45 minutes, and for approximately 2,400 Birr (USD $240), one cleft lip surgery can change a child’s life forever.

Mission

Ethiopia: Jimma
October 15 - October 24, 2009

For more information about this mission please contact Daniel Meles at dmeles@operationsmile.org... >>

Latest News and Events

Operation Smile Supports WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives Initiative
	On June 25th, Operation Smile participated in the global launch ceremony of the World >>

U.S. Doctor’s Join Together to Change Marie’s Life
	Marie Gebrewold was born in Ethiopia. When she was only six-months-old, she fell out of her bed >>

Operation Smile Provides Surgery to Ethiopian Teenager in Norfolk, Virginia
	The life of 15-year-old Edelawit Shekur from Tifrem, in the Gurage Zone in Southern Ethiopia, >>

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