DePaul University Dental Brigades December 2014 Honduras


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Volunteer Activity Description

Start Date: Dec 8, 2014 12:00 AM
End Date: Dec 14, 2014 12:00 AM

Global Brigades offers a 7 day Dental Brigade for volunteers to participate in throughout the year in Central America and Ghana. Dental Brigade volunteers have the opportunity to shadow licensed dentists in urgent and preventive dental services in communities with limited access to healthcare. Dental Brigades also focuses on prevention with dental hygiene workshops. Each of our partner communities receives a brigade approximately twice a year. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. A typical brigade structure includes three clinic days and a Holistic Model Day. This unique day allows for medical brigaders to experience one of Honduras’ other programs: Architecture, Microfinance, Public Health or Water. Through these Holistic Model Days, volunteers are able to tackle non-health related issues that are often times the root cause of common illnesses seen on medical brigades. The main health concerns in our communities include diarrhea, respiratory illnesses, waterborne illnesses and abdominal pain.

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in donations needed to reach the Initiative Goal


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Alli Voce

Passionate about: Helping others and traveling.

Mikaela Donovan

Passionate about: Helping people in their time of need and dentistry of all fashions.

Olivia Lefelstein

Passionate about: Dentistry
Keshar M Tamrakar donated $285 3778 days ago
Keshar Tamrakar donated $300 3783 days ago
Samia khan donated $10 3784 days ago
Sarah Malik donated $15 3785 days ago
Fern M Caka donated $25 3785 days ago

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