This year marks a remarkable milestone for Bridge2Aid as the charity celebrates 20 years since its very first Dental Volunteer Programme in Tanzania.

To honour this achievement, they are launching the #20FOR20 campaign, and are inviting you to join them in creating a lasting legacy. By donating £20, supporters can help them raise £20,000 to kickstart the next 20 years of life-changing work!

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Donations will make a profound difference by:

  • Empowering the local dental workforce: supporting the training and up-skilling of local oral care providers, ensuring essential treatment reaches those in need

  • Educating communities: training teachers and community health workers to spread vital oral health messages in schools and communities

  • Expanding reach: enabling the expansion of programmes to create sustainable, community-led changes that will impact thousands of lives.

There are still a few spaces left for dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) on the October outreach/training programme in the Mwanza region of Tanzania, running from 19 October to 2 November 2024.

This programme will focus on:

  • Screening in primary schools

  • Training and up-skilling local dental therapists

  • Providing basic dental treatment

  • Delivering oral health education

  • Post-programme mentoring for dental therapists.

Volunteers are welcome to join for the full two-week programme or for a single week. Additionally, there are upcoming programmes focusing on Oral Health Education (OHE) in February, March and May 2025, as well as further outreach programmes in February and June 2025.

To learn more about volunteering fill in the expression of interest form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9vfI-PtYy-2AvqM5n5ef3l-BpUGs1CtY2XltoCTX9_mgHvg/viewform?pli=1.