Medical Mission: Adapt, Persist, Give a Kid a Chance

 December 19, 2014 While it offers an opportunity to visit another country, a Smile Network medical mission is no vacation. In fact, volunteers spend a week in an exotic location and often return home more tired than when they left. Though they work long days they inevitably leave with a different perspective on life and…

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Solidarity and Smiles

December 12, 2014 I left a bit of my heart in Cusco, Peru, last month while on a Smile Network International medical mission trip. It was parceled out — to the children who arrived at the hospital with cleft lips and palates; to the family members who accompanied them, but especially to the mothers who…

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