Author: Brooke Hira

As the days and weeks of this pandemic progress, many families are unable to obtain necessary supplies. Just A Smile has recently been preparing for Project Vietnam’s Mission Trip and we have collected many bottles of children’s tylenol and motrin, diapers and children’s vitamins. The mission trip was scheduled to …

Just A Smile would like to give a huge thank you to 4Imprint for their generous grant! Applying through 4Imprint’s One by One Program, our organization was awarded $500 to purchase any merchandise we wanted. 4Imprint offers a large selection of customized logo products and after browsing the hundreds of …

Project Vietnam (projectvietnam.org) is an organization that provides cleft lip and palate surgeries and post-operative support to impoverished children in the rural areas of Vietnam who would not otherwise be able to afford this life-changing surgery. Our goal at Just A Smile was to help Project Vietnam collect the much …

In our continued effort to help Project Vietnam for their upcoming medical mission trip in March, Just a Smile is collecting children’s liquid ibuprofen and children’s liquid acetaminophen for the kids in Vietnam. Our drive is hoping to collect 100 bottles by March 1. If you are able to donate …

JustASmile.org is currently collecting gently used and new stuffed animals for the upcoming Project Vietnam mission trip in March.   The mission will provide free cleft lip and palate surgeries to underprivileged children in Vietnam. Thank you!! We are also in need of stickers! Any donation is greatly appreciated! 

The Just A Smile Team is back at it again! We had another bake sale this January and it was a hit! We would love to thank all of our volunteers for their hard work and dedication! We raised $130 woohoo:). We also would like to thank everyone who stopped …

Hi guys!  Just A Smile has created a new chapter at Tesoro known as the Just A Smile Club! Every participant there has been nothing but hard working and enthusiastic! We are thirty-four members strong and counting! We would love to welcome anyone who’s happy and willing to participate in …

A big shout-out to Guys Giv’n Back for letting Just A Smile join their 8th annual Mission Viejo garage sale extravaganza fundraiser!  Through many generous donations from our community, our teams were able to raise over a thousand dollars. A great big thank you to Christy Wrightson of Guys Giv’n …

        This past July was Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month and I was so excited to be a part of the celebration at the CHOC Craniofacial department’s 2nd annual family event at the Santa Ana Zoo!  The event brought together over 300 patients and family members! It …

         Thanks to the support of my awesome middle school, we were able to raise over $200 selling Otter Pops after school this past week! We received generous donations of Otter Pop cases from members of our PRIDE Stars program, led by Ms. Vollebregt. Special thanks to …

Yay, I’m so excited!  Although it has been a lot of work these past few months working on our donation drive, it has really paid off. I was able to raise enough money to fund two cleft lip and palate surgeries through Smile Train and Operation Smile! Thanks to everyone …

After a rainy past few days, the skies were beautiful on Sunday as fellow Just a Smile member and friend, Jenna, hosted a bake sale with me in Ladera Ranch’s Town Green.  We had lots of foot traffic and were able to sell our yummy brownies, cake pops, cookies and sweets …