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A medical facility, three residences for staff, and we drilled eight wells. tell me about the smile train. when you donate money to charity, quite often you don't know where that money goes or what it does. but with the smile train, when you're looking at kids with cleft palates, and they're like this in the first photo, and after a minor surgery, they're like this and they're smiling. and you say, "yeah, i like that. i can see where my money is being spent," so... harvey: and again, you've changed their lives. you have donated so much money to charitable causes. i know you've given millions o...

Guilty, even though, it has nothing to do with them. so it has a long impact in the family. so, but at the same time, a simple defect to be corrected, you know, with a little bit of training. any plastic surgeon or surgeon can operate on the patients and correct the deformity. >> reporter: so how does a cleft palate lip happen? between the fourth and the seventh weeks of pregnancy and in development, the tissue joins together to make the face including the lips and the mouth. when it is not fully joined an open manage the upper lip is forms known as a cleft palate and a cleft palate is a gap i...

>> most of these kids here would be dead. >> reporter: the philadelphia-based christian organization that runs the hospital treats 37,000 patients a year, including 60 children annually with cleft palates. but near the entrance to this hospital dr. umanos was gunned down as he greeted two other americans, a father and son. an afghan security guard opened fire on the group at close range killing them all. dr. umanos's wife, who also volunteered in afghanistan, got the call along with her son at the couple's chicago home. >> our family has suffered a great loss. our hearts are aching for our los...