We strive every day to promote oral health and over all wellbeing through education and by example and are very excited to announce our plans to join Kindness in Action on a volunteer dental trip to Ecuador, January 13-20th 2011. We have started an entire campaign locally around this mission trip called ‘Share a Smile with the World’.
As part of our responsibilities as global citizens we will be going to Ecuador to provide free dental services for children and families that would otherwise go without. However, we also realize that there is a need to act locally, in our own neighbourhoods and as such we would like to present to your parish the idea of a free day of dental screening and preventive fluoride treatments for children and youth between the ages of 2 and 19.
We would organize a day that we could bring our mobile dental equipment to your facility and you could offer these services free of charge to your parish and your community residents. “Prevention is the cure” and many children and youth today go without regular preventative dental services. We would like to help ease the financial burden of access to dental care and to educate parents and children about preventive oral care and other low cost options that are available to their children.
Our campaign for ‘Share a Smile with the World” also includes other fun fundraising ideas including Mouthguard Madness, a largely reduced fee for custom fit sports mouthguards; Nickel for Notebooks fundraiser to provide school supplies for the children in an orphanage in Ecuador that we are going to visit; and our clients and dental suppliers have already been extremely generous with donating toothbrushes, floss and toothpaste. Perhaps your parish would like to sponsor some local children who would benefit from having a custom fit sports mouthguard or having the children get involved in collecting nickels to help supply much needed notebooks to the children in Ecuador. Anyway you could get involved would help support our volunteer trip and engage our community in an extremely fulfilling project.
If you are interested in organizing a free ‘Share a Smile’ day at your church or would like more information please contact my receptionist Theresa by phone or email.
Thank you for your interest and I look forward to working with you to make this project a success.
Sincerely,
Heather Cooper R.D.H
The following is a list of Free Screening days that we have scheduled so far:
Christ Community Church Free Dental Screening
