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Karen Odom
The honor is mine to dance for the Operation Smile’s Dancing with the Carolina Stars 2017. My passion has been dancing for many years and a few years ago when I realized by sharing my passion with others, it makes me smile and them smile. I have spent hours teaching children, dancing for my church and for my community, dancing at events for fundraising and promoting non-profit events. My son refers to it as the job I don’t get paid to do. The reward of the smiles from others, when I smile at them, is worth every minute. At competitions, usually the last word from a friend, a judge passing by or especially my dance partner is “Smile, you look so much better when you smile.”
Recently, I have attended the Dancing with the Carolina Stars and supported the event and am humbled to know that so many children here and across the world are not born with an easy smile. And, their parents must be so broken hearted. Knowing that what we can do here in Greensboro can change a child’s smile and life forever, is thrilling and very rewarding. And the gratefulness felt by their parents, would be a miracle of peace of mind and dream come true.
About Operation Smile
Operation Smile is an international medical charity whose global network of thousands of credentialed medical volunteers from over 80 countries is committed to helping improve the health and lives of children from more than 60 countries. Since 1982, we've worked with local medical professionals, governments, hospitals and other NGOs to deliver the safest care to each of our patients, and have established care centers wherever possible to give children ongoing medical treatment.
Operation Smile continues to provide training and education for local medical professionals so they can provide care within their own communities and share their expertise. To date, we have provided more than 220,000 free surgeries for children born with cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities.
