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We're currently involved in the following projects:
Communicable Diseases Transmission In Healthcare Settings
- We are working directly with hospitals in the area to educate the staff about cross-contamination and to train them to help minimize
diseases
transmission. Some local hospitals still
do not have effective sterilization equipment or techniques.
Handicapped Children-unfortunately a great many of the children who are born handicapped in China end up in orphanages. We work
with an orphanage in the heart of Hefei City where we provide much needed dental care for the handicapped children.
Dental Professional
Training- We currently provide training to teach
updated dental and health techniques to resident dentists, dental
nurses,
and dental technicians. Our training includes a wide variety of
in-depth
hands-on training from dental care training to proper chairside
methods.
We are in the process of building a new training center in Hefei
City - our board members have pledged $125,000 to the project and we
need
another $325,000 in donations. The new training center will be a
modern
facility where we can train the dental professionals the techniques
they
need to serve their community effectively.
Public Education Seminars
- working with the local government and its
channels, we provide monthly seminars open to the public where they
can learn basic dental care and ask questions about maintaining
their dental health. Each time we give one of these seminars we have
an
overwhelming attendance and positive response from the public.
Scholarship And Mobile Dental Clinic Programs
- we are currently in the process of putting a
scholarship program in place to train junior college graduates and jobless high school students to become
dental
nurses, and dental technicians. This scholarship program will need
$150,000 for proper training and placement of dental health care
workers in the Hefei City area.
We have a capital campaign for $675,000, for the purpose of
creating a mobile dental clinic. This clinic will be used for
bringing urgently needed
dental care and prevention programs to rural areas of Anhui
Province. On our staff, we have experience creating and
sustaining similar programs in the US, specifically serving migrant
farm workers from Mexico working in the United States.
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