The Operation Smile SA team has wrapped up a powerful mission at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha, uniting expert volunteers, local health heroes, and dedicated partners to give deserving…
Every child deserves to smile, and Operation Smile South Africa is helping make that a reality by offering free, life-changing cleft care to families in the rural Eastern Cape. …
Today, on World Smile Day, 2 October, a new survey explores how South Africans spend on happiness, what they would give to help others, and what they know about cleft…
Jen Rowe joined “Good Things with Brent Lindeque” to talk about her son Ky, the story behind KY-ND and why choosing our words with care could matter more than we…
Robert Bolus, affectionately known as the ‘Smiling Walker’, is turning his passion for walking into life-changing surgeries for children born with cleft conditions. Western Cape, South Africa (18 September…
What began as a chance encounter 14 years ago has blossomed into a lifelong legacy of compassion by a women’s sewing group that has dedicated itself to sewing colourful theatre…
Behind every smile is a story of hope, and thanks to a three-day specialist oral healthcare programme in Mpumalanga, more than 200 children and families just began a bright new…
By collecting and donating plastic bottle tops, South Africans are playing their part in an incredible mission to help fund life-changing corrective cleft surgeries for disadvantaged children and provide wheelchairs…
Operation Smile South Africa and Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital will provide free surgeries for up to 40 children during a special weekend programme in Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa (22…
Paddlers take on the Robben Island challenge while raising funds for surgeries and ocean conservation. Cape Town, South Africa (17 April 2026) – Come Freedom Day, it’s not just…
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