Smile Angel Foundation

Smile Angel Foundation (Chinese: 嫣然天使基金; pinyin: Yānrán Tiānshǐ Jījīn; sometimes Yanran Angel Foundation) is a Beijing-based charity founded in 2006 by Faye Wong and Li Yapeng to help Chinese children born with clefts. It is affiliated with the Red Cross Society of China. The foundation is named after the couple's daughter, Li Yan, who was born in the same year with severe clefts and underwent corrective surgery in the United States.

By 2007, the foundation had raised 35 million renminbi, including 29.5 million from auctions at its first two December fundraisers. It had assisted more than 2,000 children by 2008, and about 7,000 by mid-2010. Since 2008, the charity has worked with eight urban hospitals to make an annual journey to remote areas of China, providing free operations to children of poor famililies. In April 2010, it was recognized by the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs as one of the 20 most influential charity projects in 2009.

On 1 December 2011, the foundation teamed up with Germany's Philharmonie der Nationen and held a charity concert in Shanghai for the 5th anniversary of the foundation.

In 2012, the charity established Beijing Smile Angel Children's Hospital, China's first charity hospital for children. It will offer free surgeries to 600 children with cleft lip each year. It has about 180 physicians and nurses, 10 percent of whom are volunteers.

Cleft lip and palate
Related specialities
  • Advance practice nursing
  • Audiology
  • Dentistry
  • Dietetics
  • Genetics
  • Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  • Orthodontics
  • Orthodontic technology
  • Otolaryngology
  • Pediatrics
  • Pediatric dentistry
  • Physician
  • Plastic surgery
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Respiratory therapy
  • Social Work
  • Speech and language therapy
Related syndromes
  • Hearing loss with craniofacial syndromes
  • Pierre Robin syndrome
  • Popliteal pterygium syndrome
  • Van der Woude syndrome
Cleft lip and palate organisations
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Association
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Ireland
  • Interplast
  • North Thames Regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service
  • Operation Smile
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children
  • Smile Train
  • Transforming Faces Worldwide
  • Operation of Hope
  • Smile Angel Foundation (China)
Related organisations
  • American Association of Orthodontists
  • British Dental Association
  • British Dental Health Foundation
  • British Orthodontic Society
  • Canadian Association of Orthodontists
  • Dental Technologists Association
  • National Health Service
  • Orthodontic National Group
  • Orthodontic Technicians Association
  • General Dental Council

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