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Where We Work

Global effort, local impact. Discover where Operation Smile teams are providing care and building equal access to quality health care.

Our Global Impact

We currently provide world-class cleft care in 37 countries supported by more than 6,000 volunteers from 60 countries and have a presence in more than 40 countries.

A World of Care

We work tirelessly to ensure access to high-quality, comprehensive care around the world.

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countries Operation Smile has presences in.

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Providing Patient Care

We provide direct patient care through short-term surgical and nonsurgical programs, comprehensive care centers and hospital partnerships. We work with local community leaders to create solutions that deliver the highest quality of care possible.

Short-Term Programs

Over the years, we’ve perfected the surgical program model. Our dedicated patient coordinators execute country-wide awareness and recruitment campaigns in advance to advertise the services we provide. At the same time, our program coordinators handle the logistics required to secure the supplies and the space need to host our patients, their families and our volunteers. The program itself lasts less than two weeks.

Year-Round Centers of Care

Our patients’ need for care doesn’t stop when a short-term surgical program ends. That’s why we operate 33 care centers in 18 countries that provide year-round solutions for those who require more complex treatment than a single program can provide. At these centers, patients receive free services including dentistry, orthodontics, speech therapy, nutritional counseling, psychosocial care, and cleft and orthognathic surgeries from our dedicated staff and volunteers.

Hospital Partners

Operation Smile partners with nearly 200 hospitals in the countries where we work. These partnerships take a variety of forms, with some offering us space to conduct surgical interventions and operations and some providing ongoing care via surgeons or care providers who are affiliated with us. These hospital partnerships provide an ongoing avenue for care for patients with cleft conditions and facilitate increased collaboration between Operation Smile staff and volunteers and high-level health care providers in the countries where we work.

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