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    Introducing our London Virgin Marathon runners

    Today’s the day! The Virgin London Marathon 2014 is upon us and this year we’re delighted to have five runners taking part to raise money for Bridge2Aid! We can’t thank the team enough for choosing to support our dental training programmes and wish them the best of luck for the big event. Meet our runners […]


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    Voluntourism – who is responsible?

    – Mark Topley, CEO Last week a Blog Post on volunteering appeared in my Facebook feed which has had me thinking. Whilst I don’t agree with everything the author writes, it’s a very thought provoking post, and one which strikes a chord with me in a number of areas. It’s passionate. It has a genuine […]


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    Adams Dental pledges treatment fees to Bridge2Aid

    Dr Alex Adams, of Adams Dental in Southgate, has recently returned from Tanzania following a very successful dental training programme in which 12 Health Workers were trained in emergency dental care and over 1300 patients were treated. Following Alex’s experience with us, the founding dentist has announced that his practice, Adams Dental, will donate all […]


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    A successful Dentistry Show

    – Mark Topley Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the Dentistry Show – a fast growing dental trade and training event held at the NEC in Birmingham. It was my third trip to the show, and it has been fantastic to see how the event has grown in such a short space of time. This particular show came […]


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    The Association of Dental Groups support Bridge2Aid

    We’re thrilled to announce that the Association of Dental Groups (ADG), the professional body that represents corporate and group dentistry providers, has made Bridge2Aid one of their key charity partners for the next 12 months and has made a substantial donation to our urgent appeal. Following the launch of our appeal earlier this year, ADG […]


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    A tribute to our volunteers

    – Mark Topley, CEO This week I want to pay tribute to our volunteers.  The people that quite literally make our training programme and the work that we do in East Africa possible. I know many of you will have heard us talk about volunteers a lot and I wanted to take this opportunity to […]


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    The Subtle Difference

    – Mark Topley, CEO I can’t quite believe how busy our volunteer training programme is right now! We started the year with another of our very successful Phase 2 programmes (where a smaller team of volunteers work to train District Dental Officers in how to be trainers), which was quickly followed by a double programme […]


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    Our first dental training programme in Babati District

    Following a very successful DVP earlier this month, today another group of volunteers will leave Heathrow in preparation for our second dental training programme during February! 12 Health Workers successfully completed our dental training programme in the Lake Zone region on Wednesday 12th, following 3 days of theory training and 6 days of practical training […]


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    A click of a button

    Guest blog by Toothpick.com In the UK, we have come to take access to dentists for granted. We may complain that we have to travel to visit an NHS dentist or wait a couple of days to get a booking with our regular dentist. But the truth is that when we need treatment, we can […]


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    Urgent Appeal update

    Mark Topley, CEO.  Thank you so much to those who have already donated to our urgent appeal, it’s been a huge encouragement for us all. We’ve raised over £40,000 in just a few weeks on our Justgiving Page and cannot thank the dental industry enough for coming together at this time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_9YKmncfeU&feature=youtu.be


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