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deadline: 5-22-2008
goal: 7,500

Help a Child Smile

Target: Children Needing Smiles
Sponsored by: Operation Smile

For more than 25 years, Operation Smile has been helping children around the world afflicted with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. A child born with a facial deformity is mocked and ridiculed. Eating and speaking are difficult. These children often end up totally dependent on their families who may even shut them away, believing they are cursed. Children who grow up with unrepaired cleft lips and cleft palates have difficulty developing social skills or leading productive lives.

Since 1982, Operation Smile's volunteer medical teams have treated more that 115,000 children providing free surgery, medical care and follow up treatment. Now they are going to Madagascar. This is the organization's second medical mission to this country and we are asking that people send messages of hope to the children who will be receiving the corrective surgery. These children are now ostracized and objects of ridicule, but they will soon be able to smile without fear. Won't you help encourage them to smile? Send a message of hope.

THE MESSAGE

Dear [Child],

I send you a message of hope - for a new smile, a new day, a new life. I'm so happy for you!

[Your Comment]

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]

Sign a Message of Hope

We signed the “Help a Child Smile” message!

# 7,500:

11:00 pm PDT, May 4, Big Daddy, California
Live long and prosper.

# 7,499:

8:31 pm PDT, May 4, Pamela Spacek, Illinois

# 7,498:

7:56 pm PDT, May 4, Kathy Wall, Texas

# 7,497:

7:55 pm PDT, May 4, Mary Morris, Texas
I am so excited for you to smile for the first time! I love you!

# 7,496:

7:09 pm PDT, May 4, Cynthia Johnson, Pennsylvania

# 7,495:

5:47 pm PDT, May 4, Thea Nunez, North Carolina

# 7,494:

5:46 pm PDT, May 4, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

# 7,493:

4:00 pm PDT, May 4, Ann Kowaleski, California

# 7,492:

2:55 pm PDT, May 4, Marilyn Bartlett, New York

# 7,491:

2:44 pm PDT, May 4, Jessica Powers, California

# 7,490:

2:17 pm PDT, May 4, Anna Milligan, Canada

# 7,489:

1:26 pm PDT, May 4, Andrea Rozman, Netherlands

# 7,488:

12:35 pm PDT, May 4, Lorraine Thompson, New York

# 7,487:

12:21 pm PDT, May 4, John Robideau, New York

# 7,486:

10:34 am PDT, May 4, JoAnne Sutton, California

# 7,485:

10:08 am PDT, May 4, Emily Newton, Illinois

# 7,484:

8:54 am PDT, May 4, Amber Smith, Oregon

# 7,483:

6:42 am PDT, May 4, Melody Massey, West Virginia

# 7,482:

12:56 am PDT, May 4, Suanne Weber Kiss, Alabama

# 7,481:

10:42 pm PDT, May 3, Adriana Aquino, Paraguay

# 7,480:

10:17 pm PDT, May 3, Ralph Alvarez, New York

# 7,479:

7:26 pm PDT, May 3, Christine Walturz, Pennsylvania

# 7,478:

6:43 pm PDT, May 3, Cecilia Ball, California

# 7,477:

6:33 pm PDT, May 3, Sharon Dickenson, Kentucky

# 7,476:

5:57 pm PDT, May 3, Erin Malmquist, Kentucky

# 7,475:

4:51 pm PDT, May 3, L Gols, Massachusetts

# 7,474:

2:46 pm PDT, May 3, Terry Cadwallader, Missouri

# 7,473:

1:57 pm PDT, May 3, Melissa Britton, Washington

# 7,472:

12:17 pm PDT, May 3, Sabrina Poblete, California

# 7,471:

11:43 am PDT, May 3, Tara O'Sullivan, Florida

# 7,470:

11:23 am PDT, May 3, Rev Crow Swimsaway PhD, Ohio

# 7,469:

10:08 am PDT, May 3, Frank Smith, Maryland

# 7,468:

9:20 am PDT, May 3, Tamara Rosen, Arizona

# 7,467:

9:05 am PDT, May 3, Jen Brasley, New Hampshire
I hope that this can help make a child happier!

# 7,466:

8:16 am PDT, May 3, Michal Dokrzewski, Poland

# 7,465:

7:48 am PDT, May 3, T Steinman, New Jersey

# 7,464:

7:33 am PDT, May 3, Name not displayed, North Carolina
Every child deserves to start out with the best chances in life. A perfect smile seems like such a small thing to ask for that can bring so much joy to their lives and so many others.

# 7,463:

7:29 am PDT, May 3, Lucia Spinelli, New York

# 7,462:

5:25 am PDT, May 3, Kim Harris, Oregon

# 7,461:

5:19 am PDT, May 3, Herminia Rios, Sweden

# 7,460:

10:24 pm PDT, May 2, Dennis Shields, Arizona

# 7,459:

7:00 pm PDT, May 2, Melanie Doherty, New York

# 7,458:

6:14 pm PDT, May 2, Barbi Varady, Arizona
To the special little person, know that you were already beautiful when you were born, and gave all those around you a smile in their hearts. Soon you'll be able to smile right back at them and once you start, NEVER stop, because when you smile, the whole world smiles with you!!! God Bless You and all the other little angels!XOXOXO

# 7,457:

4:55 pm PDT, May 2, Aaron Sumner, Michigan
Help the poor kids. No body wants to grow up and live like this.

# 7,456:

4:27 pm PDT, May 2, Nilmaris Segarra, Puerto Rico

# 7,455:

3:43 pm PDT, May 2, Keith Razack, New York
May these children be blessed with the smile of angels, as all children are incumbent to.

# 7,454:

1:43 pm PDT, May 2, Name not displayed, Florida

# 7,453:

1:43 pm PDT, May 2, Daina Almario-Kopp, Illinois

# 7,452:

1:40 pm PDT, May 2, Yaremis Lopez, Florida
Smile my child, for it is the inside that counts.

# 7,451:

12:39 pm PDT, May 2, Felice Eliscu, Wisconsin
Smile often.

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