Smile Train
Smile Train is an international children’s charity and the first cleft-focused organization with a true model of sustainability. Smile Train empowers local medical professionals with training, funding, and resources to provide free cleft surgery and comprehensive cleft care to children globally. We advance a sustainable solution and scalable global health model for cleft treatment, drastically improving children's lives, including their ability to eat, breathe, and speak. Beyond surgery, our local partners also provide speech therapy, psychological support, nutritional services, orthodontics, and other essential forms of care to ensure that children with clefts have everything they need to not just live, but thrive. Our sustainable model makes us more efficient and effective than mission-based organizations, as Smile Train’s patients can receive care 365 days a year. In the last 21 years, we have supported safe and quality cleft care for 2+ million children across 90+ countries, and with the generous support of our donors, our work will continue until every child with a cleft has access to the high-quality care they need. Join us in changing the world one smile at a time! Facebook.com/SmileTrain Instagram.com/SmileTrain Twitter.com/SmileTrainwww.smiletrain.org
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Oct 1, 2026
Jimmy PardoHOST
and what do you think we would do at your thing? You know what it is? It's because we have done events for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and this is Suicide Prevention Month.
Jimmy PardoHOST
So it was that, and then all of our years of Smile Train.
Jimmy PardoHOST
So if somebody's looking for a podcast, where if you go podcast and charity events, we're probably going to come up as one of the top ones.
Jimmy PardoHOST
That's fair.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
He was-
Karen KilgariffHOST
I just wanna say really quick, that just made me think of Jimmy Pardo and his SmileTrain.
Karen KilgariffHOST
You know Jimmy Pardo on Never Not Funny podcast?
Georgia HardstarkHOST
Uh-huh.
Karen KilgariffHOST
He does all this, like, e- every year he does the Podcastathon, and he raises all this money for SmileTrain.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
Aw.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
Oh my God.
Karen KilgariffHOST
And SmileTrain goes out and gives anybody that can't afford the surgery to fix it, they go fix them.
KyleHOST
But we talked about this last year, and the time is near once again for our podcast hero, Jimmy Pardo.
KyleHOST
To be putting on auction an appearance by him on your podcast if you donate so much money to the Smile Train at his podcast marathon.
KyleHOST
So here's what we're planning on doing.
KyleHOST
Donating you and I collectively, Steve, upwards of $0.
Janie B. CheneyCORRESPONDENT
The before and after photos showed Donnie leaning against his hospital bed in a neck and arm brace, then striding forward with a cocky little boy smile under the heading, Your dimes did this for me.
Janie B. CheneyCORRESPONDENT
Suffering children have adorned fundraising pitches ever since for Easter Seals, Smile Train, Feed the Children, World Vision, and many more.
Janie B. CheneyCORRESPONDENT
This kind of poster child touches our hearts and tugs at our pocketbooks.
Janie B. CheneyCORRESPONDENT
More recently, the term has morphed to mean a single individual who symbolizes not a disease or a disaster, but a social evil.