This past week I’ve been busy preparing for October – a month I’ve been looking forward to for a while as it marks the 10th Anniversary of the Bridge2Aid Dental Volunteer Programme and Hope Dental Centre. One of my tasks was to put together a sequence of photos for the 10 Year Birthday Bash at […]
Last week I was in Bukoba, north west Tanzania, visiting one of our DVP teams. I recorded a video blog about that trip last week and you can find it here. As I said in the v-log, travelling with the volunteers and seeing DVP in action was a great boost for me. It always reminds […]
CEO Mark Topley visits the 63rd Dental Volunteer Programme team in Bukoba, North West Tanzania, and talks about the impact of the programme and its importance in rural areas.
– Mark Topley, CEO Three years ago this week, I, along with 20 or so others was busy preparing for what was to become one of the most enjoyable, challenging, rewarding experiences of our lives – climbing Africa’s highest Mountain – Kilimanjaro. A 40 minute turbo-prop flight from my home in Mwanza, Kili overshadows the […]
– Mark Topley, CEO It’s hard to believe that 10 years ago, I had just made my third visit to Tanzania, working with Founders Ian and Andie on the concept for something totally new in short-term dental volunteering. The trip in June was to prepare for our first Dental Volunteer Programme in October which my […]
– Mark Topley, CEO I’ve been loaned a car. Juggling kids and work between two full time parents and 8 week’s holiday in the same African town (with virtually no friends around) means a 1 car strategy was going to be difficult. Thankfully a very generous local businessman offered the long term loan of this […]
– Mark Topley, CEO Last week was Quarterly Team Meeting time in Tanzania. Because of my diary and travel I missed the last one, so I was really looking forward to seeing the team and catching up (as well as enjoying at least 4 different carbs for lunch – if you’ve visited us or worked […]
Tom Wright, Marketing Co-ordinator at Goodman Grant Solicitors describes the firm’s recent Coast to Coast charity cycle challenge raising funds in aid of Bridge2Aid. As I recount the cycle challenge I have two feelings; elation and deflation. All of the team feel immensely proud at completing the challenge however, whilst there is great satisfaction in […]
– Mark Topley, CEO I’ve been so encouraged in the last couple of weeks by various fund-raising efforts that have come in: People donating their speaking fees (including a certain participant in ‘The Island’) when they speak publicly. Smile In Pink 2014 – Over 300 practices taking part and funds starting to roll in. The […]
– Dr Ian Wilson, Founder I found ITV’s documentary ‘The Dentists’ last week both illuminating and upsetting. The fact that 90% of adults in the UK suffer from the pain of dental related disease, and the majority, it seems, due to our never ending battle with the fallout from the UK’s addiction with sweets and […]
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