– Ian Wilson, Founder of Bridge2Aid During last year’s Mounth Cancer Action Month, Dr Ian Wilson, Founder of Bridge2Aid, wrote the following blog outlining his experiences of mouth cancer in a developing nation. One year on, and the message remains just as poignant: As a dental practitioner working out in Africa for much of […]
Earlier this year the Bridge2Aid team was lucky enough to cross paths with Dental Design Ltd, a leading website design agency based in Poole. Managing Director Nigel Reece was keen to join the Bridge2Aid family having heard about our work in East Africa, and was particularly impressed with the sustainability element of our dental training programmes.
September’s Dental Volunteer Programme had a little more in store than usual for one dentist and dental nurse, as Rachel Hunter explains: “Rosemary and I first met way back in 1982 when she came to work for a short time as a dentist with what was then Borders Health Board in Scotland. I already worked […]
– Mark Topley, CEO It has been three years now since I took over as Chief Executive of Bridge2Aid. The time has flown by and although I can’t say I have loved every minute, being in the role has been a experience and a great learning curve for me. We have certainly had our ups and […]
Mark Topley, CEO I’m in the UK office today after returning from a very successful BDTA Showcase in Birmingham last week. It was a great event in so many ways and coming back on the train on Saturday I was reflecting on how this event is often an annual marker on how far we have come. […]
Mark Topley, CEO Later this week we will once again be exhibiting at the BDTA dental show case at Birmingham NEC. It’s a great privilege for us again to be part of the A-dec stand, P02, amongst 350 or so other organisations all presenting and exhibiting what they do to the 10,000 or so expected […]
During September Bridge2Aid’s Clinical Director Paul Brind visited the Manyara region, in preparation for our February DVP taking place in the area. Here, Paul reports on his trip: Manyara region (popn. 1.5 million) is located in the north of Tanzania. It is north of Dodoma region, and south of Arusha region and Kilimanjaro region. Along […]
Last November we met Daniel Masesa, a Health Worker since 2003 in the village of Nyamwilolewa, Tanzania. Daniel successfully completed our training programme and having received his basic instrument kit from Bridge2Aid, began providing access to safe emergency dental care for his community of approximately 10,000 people.
During August we have two supporters separately climbing to Africa’s rooftop to raise money for our training programmes in East Africa. On August 13th, Kevin Hill will take on the challenge of his lifetime in a bid to raise £3,000 for charities Back Up and Bridge2Aid. The challenge will take him through Kilimanjaro’s Machame route, arguably […]
Towards the end of 2012 we introduced our Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) programme during DVP. The data gathered for M&E allows us to understand the issues faced by the patents living without access to dental care, as well as follow the successful Health Workers’ journeys and impact after participating in our Dental Training Programmes.
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