Background

Since 2002, Operation Smile has conducted medical programs in 12 cities across Cambodia. In 2014, Operation Smile opened a new permanent cleft care center at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital, located in Phnom Penh, the country’s capital and largest city. Operation Smile's global network of medical volunteers includes over 25 volunteers from Cambodia, who donate their time caring for children in Cambodia. Over the past 13 years, Operation Smile has provided medical care to more than 3,300 children in Cambodia with cleft lip, cleft palate, and other facial deformities.