Operation Smile organizes international volunteer missions to operate children with facial deformities in developing countries, coordinates programs for training physicians from around the world, manages programs to assist host countries in reaching cleft lip and cleft palate repair self-sufficiency, supports education and research programs to eradicate cleft lips and palates, and organizes global volunteer programs for high-school and college students. Operation Smile also organizes disaster relief missions where surgical teams are quickly mobilized to assist in victims in catastrophe areas.