We are seeking volunteers to join our overseas volunteering trips to Uganda and Cambodia in 2020.  Dentaid has worked in these countries since 2010 and provides ongoing support for local dental professionals by sending equipment, funding outreach programmes, and supporting oral health education programmes.  Volunteers spend 2 weeks working alongside our partner dentists enabling them to offer extra outreach clinics in schools, prisons, orphanages, refugee camps and remote communities where there is a lack of dental care.  We send teams of 8-12 volunteers who, working alongside our dental partners, treat up to 150 people per day.

We need teams of dentists, dental nurses, therapists and hygienists. They will deliver the clinics, set up, sterilize equipment, triage, provide aftercare, deliver oral health and preventative programmes.  In a typical 2-week trip there will be 10-12 clinics.  Each trip has a Dentaid trip leader who is responsible for the itinerary, working with our partners and keeping everyone safe.  The outreach clinics usually take place in community buildings, and sometimes outside. Clinics start about 8.30am and run until 4pm.  Volunteers work within their clinical remits and are expected to work to the same clinical standards as they do at home.  We use local hotels for accommodation and dedicated coaches or minibuses for transport to and from clinics.