Operation Smile is a non-profit organization created in 1982 in Norfolk, Virginia, the US in the field of medical and human health. The operation performs cleft lip and cleft palate procedures on children from all over the world, while also assisting countries in developing the ability to do these surgeries on their own, as well as initiatives to eliminate cleft lip and cleft palate. Operation Smile has performed orthopedic surgery on hundreds of thousands of children and adolescents in more than 60 countries to date.
Over the last ten years, VNA has sponsored, supported, and accompanied Operation Smile in its activities in Vietnam under the designation of "Official Carrier" through activities such as:
• Sponsoring air tickets for a team of domestic and international medical specialists and volunteers to visit Vietnam and assist Operation Smile.
• Giving out business class tickets for inclusion in auctions to raise funds for Operation Smile.
• On the 30th anniversary of Operation Smile's presence in Vietnam, VNA sponsored 149 air tickets to be used in a series of activities in November 2019, as well as four business class tickets (two international tickets, two domestic tickets) to be auctioned off on November 8, 2019.
• VNA has helped to provide more than 80 operations to Vietnamese children since January 2018.
