Hi! Welcome to my SmileFund Page. I'm Connor. I'm an (almost) 12-year old boy from Frisco, Texas. I love playing video games, going to the park with my friends, reading, writing, doing Legos. You know, normal kid stuff. Oh, and I also happen to have a cleft lip and palate.

I was lucky enough to have been born to a family that was able to afford the surgeries to repair my clefts and to receive the feeding and speech therapies required to help me live a normal life like I do today. Not everyone is so lucky.

In fact, every three minutes a child is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate – and many families can't afford the surgery they desperately need. In many places, children with cleft conditions are abandoned or abused. Many times they have trouble eating and drinking and can struggle to survive. Those that do can face a lifetime of shame and torment.

So that's why every year in January I celebrate my birthday by giving other children the same gift I received when I was 6 months old--the gift of a new smile. Will you help me bring hope and new smiles to children suffering from facial deformities by supporting my fundraising goal?

For as little as $240 and in as few as 45 minutes, Operation Smile can provide life-changing surgery – and renewed hope – for children around the world. My goal this year is to change ten lives by providing this surgery. (Yes, TEN!). But I can't do that without you. Please, consider making your tax-deductible gift to my smile fund today.

Thank you,

Connor