Operation Smile 2009 Year in Review

Your generosity has helped us create over 13,500 new smiles this year. Thank you.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• smile

[dinesnoellen]

Congartulations to your new ambassador Charice. Charice singing smile, and she makes us smile,. I know and I believe that she will be another instrument to let kids do smile,,,,

[h8urvoice]

This made me teary eyed...

Congratulations Charice for being the new Operation Smile Ambassador! We wish the best for O.S. this 2010 and that you may change more lives. :)

[lasonyalafevers]

great videos .. =)) thanks for sharing god bless

[cerritos10]

jackie chan at 1:10! go operation smile!

[otter787]

Joshua, just wondering, how many people in the U.S. do you know who've been born with a cranio-facial disorder caused by malnutrition? ANd of those, how many were not able to get help here? For the record, Op Smile helps US citizens too...just not hundreds of thousands of our children being born with cranio-facial deformities because the mother is malnutitioned

[otter787]

Operation Smile DOES help people in the United States, but most people in the United States are so healthy that they are not born with physical disabilities because of the malnutrition of the mother. Rather, most of the health issues related to newborns in the states are related to drug/alcohol use.

[luckysigil]

@1957joshua

Exactly! Americans HAVE the resources and capability of taking care of their own - but for whatever reason (GREED) they don't.

I am NOT a Republican either.

[1957joshua]

I agree. But we still have those living on the streets and they are overlooked everyday in our nations by these wonderful doctors who take care of Foreigners for free.... why is it so widely believed that Americans should not help Americans but its ok to spend billions on War but not health care??? Republicans see it that way. Thank God I am not one.

[Zaizachi]

It's up to the doctor.

Some Doctors becomes doctors to make a load of cash.

Others become Doctors because they want to help people.

There are non-profit doctors who make pretty much nothing because they charge little to none for their services.

But then there are those who will charge every penny you own because they know they can.

[CZAROFGOD]

it's the insurance firms that prevent these doctors to render their services , and in some situations the politcians are involved because they lobby for the insurance companies. peace.

[SideburnerSol]

@1957joshua That would be sad. I've seen several news reports where free health care, including dentistry was provided here in the US to the public at large arenas. The news interviewed several of the recipients and they were very grateful... especially the parents of children! Also, those who need health care but can't afford it can see a Dr.or Dentist at a free clinic. The poor that are overseas don't even have Dr.'s in their villages. CHOC hospital never turn a child away due to $

[luckysigil]

@1957joshua

The poorest person in America is STILL better off than the average person in third world countries.

This disfiguring physical abnormality that severely impacts a person's quality of life is different from having "bad teeth"...if you believe they are on the same level, than you are a sad individual.