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December 1, 201 O Ellen DeGeneres World Wide Helper Soon to be: Smile Train Recipient Dear Ms. DeGeneres, "The Key to realizing a dream is to focus not only on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning." - Oprah Winfrey. I understand this quote because I feel like I can relate to in so many ways. My name is Grace Peters and I'm a fourteen year old girl, who is currently in 8th grade. As I continue to grow and mature, I'm starting to see and understand life's gifts and how to turn a dream into reality! A dream that I have had for many years is to help children everywhere with cleft lips and/or palates. Having both a cleft lip and palate, I feel like I can relate to others around me with this birth defect. The Smile Train is run only by donations from people all around the world to help families that can't afford the surgery for their cleft lip and/or palate child. Their mission is to provide free cleft surgeries for millions of poor children in developing countries. My family and I have donated by a house yard sale, and I have also done fundraising at my elementary school, however, they were not as successful as I hoped. I'm hoping you can help. After my family and I send an amount of money towards the Smile Train, they send a letterb ack saying who you've helped, and a bit of the patient's background life before, and after the surgery. To add on, each letter I get in return from the Smile Train brings back its own feeling to it. Babies to teenagers up to my age all have their own life story; some bring me to tears, but in the end, I know how much I have helped them. This surgery would make their future so much brighter, because they could eat and speak without any problems, giving them a better opportunity for a healthy education. .

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