Operation Smile

Each year, thousands of children around the world are born with facial deformities. The estimated rate of incidence in developing countries is 1 in 500 births.

In Ireland, a facially disfigured child receives surgery soon after birth, but many children in developing countries never receive this life-altering surgery.

It takes as little as 45 minutes and costs approximately €240 for an Operation Smile cleft lip surgery to change a childs life.