Changing the World One Smile at a Time :)

Monica, Me, & Amee at trivia night for the Smile Train on Saturday night

Just got back from a trivia night to help sponsor a very cool org called the Smile Train. This international charity provides clef lip and clef palate surgeries for children in need in over 75 countries around the world.

Many children in other parts of the world are casted out of their community. They are often teased, not allowed to attend school, and cannot hold a job.

Here is a quick excerpt from their website of a story about a little girl's life who was changed by this org.

Little Pinki suffered for 6 long years.
Treated like an outcast, tormented by children who threw rocks at her and called her Torn Lip. Never allowed to go to school. There were times when her father thought she’d be better off dead.
Then one day, a social worker told her parents about The Smile Train. Pinki and her Dad walked 70 kilometers and she received free surgery that gave her not just a new smile, but a second chance at life.
Millions of children just like Pinki are waiting for the same life-changing surgery. Some have been waiting for 10, 15 even 25 years.
For a simple surgery that takes as little as 45 minutes—and costs as little as $250.

Tonight they raised $11,000. How amazing to think about how many childrens lives will be forever changed!

http://www.smiletrain.org.uk/site/PageServer