Marc Lubner, co-founder and chairman of the Smile Foundation, said he got a call from Mandela saying “there is a 13-year-old who needs help”.

“But we soon realised that many more thousands of children need help.”

And this was how the foundation was born.

Researchers at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry have uncovered another clue behind the causes of cleft palate and the process that leads to palate formation.

For about 10 days every May and December, van Aalst brings a small team of medical professionals from the U.S. to Tulkarem to operate on children with cleft palates and to teach Palestinian doctors how to treat them.

A second-round NFL draft pick from the University of Oklahoma recently had the opportunity to see how Mercy Ships changes lives -- and his life was changed in the process.

THE Lions Club of Kumta in association with the Vijaya Chartable Trust, Mangalore will arrange a free cleft lip surgery camp at Kumta on July 27, president of the club H N Naik has said in a statement.

East Timor's fledgling health services are still in great need of support from outside nations; now a United States navy hospital ship has offered to lend a hand.