Lighting Up the World with Smiles for 25 Years
![Mirian a Smile Train Patient with her mother and two brothers](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2__720x480/public/2024-04/smiletrain-25-past-header.jpg?itok=CLqnYvrt)
2,000,000+
cleft surgeries sponsored
Smile Train's Global impact over the last 25 years
1,000+
partner centers
20,000+
partner healthcare professionals
95+
countries
100,000+
training opportunities for medical workers
Looking Back at 25 Years of Changing the World One Smile at a Time
All of our successes since our founding in 1999 stem from two sources: the tireless commitment of donors like you and the world-changing vision of one man: Charles B. Wang.
The history of Smile Train is, at its core, a story about the power each of us has to change the world.
Let's relive it together.
![2000: Wang Li](/sites/default/files/2024-04/2000-wang-timeline.jpg)
2000
Our first patient, Wang Li, receives the cleft treatment that changes her life forever in Nanjing, China.
![2014: Smile Train sponsors their 1,000,000th cleft surgery, on a child named Osawa in Tanzania.](/sites/default/files/2024-04/2014-osawa.jpg)
2014
We sponsor our 1,000,000th cleft surgery, on a child named Osawa in Tanzania.
![Father and son Alim and Rajib - Smile Train's 2,000,000 and 2,000,001 cleft surgeries.](/sites/default/files/2024-04/alim-rajib-2-million-history-2.jpg)
2024
Father and son Alim and Rajib, from a remote village in Indonesia, receive Smile Train's 2,000,000th — and 2,000,001st — cleft surgeries.