client profile

A young boy called Andreas fell ill in 1994, and till the last moment faced his illness with courage and dignity, continuing to show everyone his strength and beautiful smile. In November 1995 Andreas captured his vision in his personal diary. His wish was to create an organization that would make sure that all children could have a smile. Less than a month later, Andreas passed away… but left behind the spark that was to become “The Smile of the Child”. In its 20 plus years of operation, the organization has helped support over one million children and their families, and since May 2016 has supported over 16,000 refugee children.

about the project

Over the past 25 years, "The Smile of the Child" has involved itself with many different aspects of child welfare over the years, while its activities have spanned over so many areas that it has become hard for anyone to truly grasp what it has grown into. As part of our pro bono ongoing support to this non-profit organization which started in 2016 and is going strong as ever, we now have delivered a crowdfunding platform fully integrated into the web application we have built together over the past years. The platform allows the organization to setup needs and large goal projects of their own and engage communities to crowdfund these projects whether it be a new school bus or the everyday meals and medicine for one or more children. The platform also allows interested parties or companies to work with "The Smile of the Child" and run there own approved projects and engage their own communities with concepts like "donate my day" for birthdays, weddings, baptisms etc or personal actions.

The cooperation with The Smiling Hippo constitutes a critical moment in the course of action of The Smile of the Child. Thanks to a lot of work, passion, creativity and originality the team of The Smiling Hippo refreshed our public profile and designed our new website and e-shop. It was a hard and enormous endeavor that was realized without any cost for The Smile of the Child. Each and every member of The Smiling Hippo did so with the utmost professionalism and true love. For all this we would like to extend a big THANK YOU!

Konstantinos Giannopoulos, Founder & Chairman, The Smile of the Child