Each year, PPA photographers who have contributed at least $240 to Operation Smile are eligible for a drawing to determine who will be awarded the life-changing opportunity to document an Operation Smile medical mission. Each additional $240 contributed (the amount needed by Operation Smile to enable their volunteer medical professions to perform a single surgery), provides the contributing photographer with another chance in the drawing. The personal narratives and images made by PPA photographers testify to the power that PPA members possess when they stand together to support such a worthy cause. Here are their stories:
Cari Long – A Journey Full Circle
Cari Long, Cari Long Photography, Morrisville, NC
by Ann Monteith
To view and read more about the Operation Mission to Paraguay that PPA-member photographer
Cari Long documented Go Here
Marathons to Mission Trips — Ethiopia, May 2011
Laurie Weaver, Treetales Photography, Auxtin, TX
To view and read about the Operation Smile Mission to Ethiopia that PPA-member photographer Laurie Weaver documented. Go here
A Mission of Love, Care, and Healing
by Angela Weedon, Angela Weedon Photography, Garland, TX
To view and read about the Operation Smile Mission to Honduras that PPA-member photographer Angela Weedon documented Go here 
Bolivian Miracles
by Terry Farmer, Terry Farmer Photography, Springfield, IL
To view and read about the Operation Smile Mission to Bolivia that
PPA-member photographer Terry Farmer documented Go here 