Our first trip to Morocco is coming up and Paul is busy packing. We keep a lot of medical supplies stored in our office and we wouldn’t be able to do what we do without them. The trip to Morocco is a teaching mission which means that Alliance for Smiles’ staff will supervise and teach...
Over the last month we have shared stories of families whose lives have been transformed through the generosity of people just like you. Your tax-deductible gift truly makes a difference! You only have 1 day left to make a tax deductible donation for 2017 Give Now! Here are just a few of the...
Aondesun was the second child born to Nguwaysen and the second child born with an anomaly. Her first child had hydrocephalitis (water on the brain) so her family banned her from returning to the family home with her first born. Nguwaysen had already suffered from the shock of having a baby with so many problems...
Xi turned five years old while he was in the hospital in Wenzhou, China. He had never had his birthday celebrated before. His family is poor and they don’t have money to buy each other presents. So something like cleft surgery was always just a dream. During his stay, the team asked all of the...
A 50-year-old woman had cradled in her arms a 3 month-old baby girl. She had found the baby in a garbage can, covered with blood, umbilical cord still attached. Born with a cleft lip and palate, the baby started her life as a person no one wanted. Wrapped only in a blanket, tucked in with...
You won’t believe this incredible story from a grateful father! Dear Alliance for Smiles, I want to tell you the story about how I brought my son Ji Wu to you. I was buying vegetables at our village market and heard about a group called “Alliance for Smiles” doing free cleft surgery at HuangShi Central...
One of our longtime volunteers, Dorothy S. Ferreira, has authored this article in RDH, The National Magazine For Dental Hygiene Professionals. “How many of you remember the ad tagline, “Join the ADHA. See the world”? Oh wait, that was for the Army, not dental hygiene. But there is a league of dental hygienists who have...
