Why Hoops For Smiles?
Hoops for Smiles makes winners! Our Hoops for Smiles program was created to help educate and develop future leaders about the benefits of giving back to children in need born with facial deformities.
Through athletics, and the sport of basketball in particular, Operation Smile’s global mission - to heal the smiles of children around the world - is further enhanced and strengthened.
Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. A child’s first basket ignites a smile equal in some ways to the first smile of a healed cleft patient. A smile is also a spark that ignites the flame of caring and the imagination of a new and better future.
Through athletics, and the sport of basketball in particular, Operation Smile’s global mission - to heal the smiles of children around the world - is further enhanced and strengthened.
Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. A child’s first basket ignites a smile equal in some ways to the first smile of a healed cleft patient. A smile is also a spark that ignites the flame of caring and the imagination of a new and better future.
Old Dominion University Basketball Team
NBA star Alonzo Mourning with Operation Smile Co-founder Dr. Bill Magee."Hoops for Smiles - Operation Smile." Hoops for Smiles - Operation Smile. Operation Smile, n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2012.