Our Cleft Lip and Palate Program provides free surgeries and promotes a multidisciplinary team approach to ensure patient follow-up. Sharing Smiles volunteer surgical teams comprised of plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, technicians and others, travel to partner sites to provide reconstructive surgery and hope to children who would otherwise grow up with the physical and emotional distre
ss caused by these facial deformities. Our Pediatric Therapy Program seeks to establish a formal local network that will support our partner institutions to care for children in need of physical, occupational and speech therapy. Our teams deliver individualized care plans for patients and trains local staff and volunteers to provide ongoing physical therapy and support. We form partnerships in Spanish and English speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that lead to sustainable pediatric care. Our key partners include: local ministries of health, hospitals/children’s homes, medical professionals, business and community leaders and Rotary International.
