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VIETNAM 2008 - DENTAL RELIEF OPERATION - An incredible trip with 7 volunteers from the US and 1 from the UK and 4 from Saigon. We traveled on bumpy dirt roads, took long boat rides to reach very remote villages to set up our dental clinics. The first week our team were in Tien Giang province, set up clinics in Cai Be, Go Cong Dong, Tan Phuong, Chau Thanh, seeing total of 1,736 elementary school children. The second week in Long An Province we treated 708 children in distant village of Thu Thua district and Tan Thanh District. Our team also provided dental health sessions to villagers as part of our community empowerment effort to prevent dental diseases, made gift bags for 1,209 mothers and pre-school children in Tien Giang Province, 752 in Long An Province. DDS4Kids is the only humanitarian organization that reached different remote villages of VN and provide continuous dental health dental education since 1996. (15 photos)

 

Vietnam 2007 - Dental Education Program - December 6 - Welcome Dr. Hue upon her return to VN and continues to join hand with DDS4Kids. As part of the five year dental program, 1,440 elementary school children received dental health education in 3 different school of Long Son Island, Vung Tau Ba Ria province. (8 photos)

 

Tennessee - Children Health & Maintenace Plan (CHAMP) - November 2, 2007 - Dr. Lan Jones provided free dental screening for Winfield School in Scott County, 216 students from K – 8th grade as part of the Appalachian Life Quality Initiative for Children’s Welfare program. ALQI partners with the community to promote health, education and other programs especially for the underserved children. This partnership will be a lifelong process enabling each child to be an educated, confidant, self-directed, and a positive member of an ever-changing global society. It’s extremely rewarding to help children, regardless of geography. Children are like children everywhere in the world. They need to be loved, cared for, and EDUCATED. (9 photos)

 

Vietnam 2007 - Beyond Dental Relief - November 4 - 9, 2007 - Thanks to the continuing support from caring people like you, DDS4Kids org. are able to provide financial assistance, transportation and hospital support to 15 severely burned patients and 11 cleft lips cleft palate patients from remote villages of Tien Giang, Daklak, Lam Dong, Dong Nai to Saigon for reconstruction surgery performed by a team of volunteer American plastic surgeons as part of the Burn & Facial Reconstruction Mission to VN. (20 photos)

 

Vietnam 2007 - Dental Education Program - October 29-30, 2007- DDS4kids five-year dental education program continues in 5 elementary schools serving 1,902 students from 5 to 10 years old in Tien Giang Province with the participation of the teachers, school administration and Red Cross health care workers. (7 photos)

 

Vietnam 2007-Beyond Dental Relief - October 15 - 17, 2007 - Helping another group of children from Vinh Long, Can Tho, Quy Nhon, An Giang, Bac Lieu, Binh Thuan, Long An, Dong Thap, and Daklak to receive the needed surgical treatment at the National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology in Saigon. (13 photos)

 

Vietnam 2007- Beyond Dental Relief - September 24-October 2, 2007 - Helping families in distant villages of Daklak, Phu Yen, Ca Mau, Binh Duong, Tay Ninh, Tien Giang, and Can Tho to come to the National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology in Saigon for facial reconstruction surgery. (26 photos)

 

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DDS4KIDS
Humanitarian Dental Relief Organization

DDS4Kids is a federal and state licensed non-profit health organization with the exclusive purpose to provide charitable dental care treatment and preventive dental health education on a long-term basis to children and adults living in deep poverty in the developing countries in the world. Dentists, health professionals, and non-health volunteers are needed on each team. While sharing our skills and resources with the underserved rural populations, team members will have an opportunity to experience the unique beauty of the country and its people that most tourists do not come to know.

 
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Do you wish to be a volunteer? Do you have what it takes to be a volunteer?

In 2007, some first-time-volunteer dentists on our team demanded "English tea" and "Fish and Chips" while we were in the remote villages in the Mekong Delta! If you cannot live without the daily luxury and comfort you are used to in your own home in the rich world for the two weeks we are in rural Vietnam, cannot be flexible and cannot go with the program set forth by those in charge, it would be a bad idea to join humanitarian teams like ours!

OUR TEAMS TRAVEL TO REMOTE VILLAGES WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FREE DENTAL SERVICES. OUR TEAM MEMBERS ARE THOSE WHO ARE CARING, COMPASSIONATE, HARD WORKING, FLEXIBLE, EASY GOING, ENJOY HELPING OTHERS, AND BRING THE FUN WITH THEM EVERYWHERE THEY GO.

WE ARE NOT A TRAVEL AGENCY AND OUR TRIPS ARE NOT VACATIONS FOR THE REGULAR ADVENTURE SEEKERS. DDS4KIDS IS A NON-PROFIT HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION WITH NO PAID STAFF, ONLY LIFE-LONG VOLUNTEERS.

 

You don't have to be a dental professional to join, students and all volunteers are needed.

* Zambia - contact us for date, available year round on first come first serve basis.

* Vietnam - March 7 - 22, 2008 - What a terrific dental relief trip, a great hard-working team and we were able to accomplish much!  Trip report coming soon.  Join us next year for a life changing experience!

* Zambia - September 14 - 30, 2008 - Accepting stand-by application.

*Vietnam - March 1 - 15, 2009 - Application accepted at this time.




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FAQs
1 - What percentage of the DDS4Kids budget covers overhead? How much does the CEO take as salary?

 

2 - Is there any religious requirement to join?

 

3 - What is the cost of the trip and how is it funded?

 

4 - Is there a limit in age to volunteer?

 

5 - Can I arrive earlier or leave later than the set date?

 

6 - What time of year are the trips?

 

7 - How do I make my travel arrangements?

 

8 - How many people are on the team?

 

9 - Are there health issues I need to be prepared for?

 

10 - What type of accomodations do the teams stay in?

 

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