about us

Hirsche Smiles Foundation is a nonprofit organization working with organizations in sponsoring countries to provide plastic and reconstructive surgery for needy children and to provide dental care and health education to families who do not have access to these services.

Why is our help needed?

Thousands of children and young adults in Guatemala and Mexico live in poverty and have no access to surgical and dental care or health education to improve the quality of their lives. Children may grow up with birth defects that can easily be repaired, if they can just get to the help they need.

How do we help?

Hirsche Smiles Foundation visits Guatemala, Mexico and other countries with a team of professionals and volunteers. The effort to help is two-fold: Humanitarian/Dental Services and Surgical.

The Humanitarian and Dental Services team consists of dentists, dental assistants, health educators and volunteers who visit families in remote mountain villages outside of Chiquimula, Guatemala.  The Surgical team consists of volunteer surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, student nurses who perform and assist in surgery on needy children with birth defects such as cleft lip and palate deformities, extra fingers or toes or burns or scars due to accidents. Hirsche Smiles Foundation Needs Your Help The foundation relies solely on contributions from private individuals, businesses and other charitable organizations

We have cut our overhead to $50.00 per month using volunteer office staff. Those who volunteer to go on trips donate their time and pay their own way. This sacrifice on everyone's part allows the foundation to use nearly all of the contributions to go directly to the care of the children.