We work very hard at Bridge2Aid to make the very best use of the money we’re entrusted with. If you’ve ever visited us in Mwanza or the office in Wotton-Under-Edge, you’ll know that we certainly aren’t flash! I am constantly impressed by how much the teams in both countries manage to achieve with the money […]
A post this week aimed mainly at non-dentist readers, but which I hope is an encouragement to dentists and the profession as well. There’s a great deal of ‘Dentist Bashing’ in the media at the moment it seems. Mainly coming from the Daily Mail from what I can see. Although a lot of this passes […]
I am so proud I could pop. A couple of weeks ago we ran our latest training and treatment programme in the Manyara region of Tanzania. Our practical training and treatment programmes create sustainable access to emergency dental treatment in rural areas. We treat the community for free, train local health workers how to extract […]
The annual World Oral Health Day comes up again this Friday. If like me, you’re not a dentist, your response may well be ‘so what?’ It’s not an unexpected one given the level of other disease around the world. So why is Oral Health important? What I’ve observed over the past 12 years I’ve been […]
Last week I took the day to visit one of the Dental Volunteer Programme Training teams working with us for 2 weeks. It’s something I find rewarding, exhausting and heartbreaking, even after 10 years. And this day was no exception. It was however fantastic to have our God-Daughter Grace with me. Grace is living with […]
We welcomed our latest Dental Volunteer Programme teams to Mwanza last night. Before they set out to the remote rural areas at different ends of the Lake Zone, we had dinner together on the shores of Lake Victoria. There are several returning volunteers on this trip, including Barry Devonald who is here for an incredible […]
John is 45 years old; he lives in Tabani village, Butiama district, in the northern Lake Zone of Tanzania with his wife and two children. John is a farmer and grows maize and other crops for both feeding his family and for selling any surplus at market. Having been in pain for a whole […]
Without any need for violins – last year was tough. This is a particularly difficult time to be running a charity (or anything for that matter), and especially a charity which works outside of the mainstream, and particularly when there are emergencies like Ebola contributing to ‘compassion fatigue’ in the UK. I don’t think I’m […]
It’s one thing for us to say what we do works. But what about the partners we work with, those on the ground with the responsibility of ensuring it does? We talked to Dr Samuel Kalongoji – the District Dental Officer who worked with us to set up the Dental Training Programme about his thoughts, […]
Mektrida: Mother of three, wife, cook, cleaner, firewood gatherer, collector of water, farmer. Deborah: Mother of five, wife, cook, cleaner, firewood gatherer, collector of water farmer, local trader. Mariam: Mother of six, widower, cook, cleaner, firewood gatherer, collector of water, farmer. Metodia: Mother of seven, wife, […]
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