Last Wednesday, Oct. 3rd, with the help of some great people in Ascope and a volunteer group from Tujillo, a dental heath campaign took place in Ascope. I'm super proud of this one becuase it is one of the first things that I was totally in charge of. I did all of the things that other people usually help me with, like document writing, chasing down the mayor for money (which we never actually got), and overall organization. I'm also really happy with this because it was a great group effort with collaborations from the preschool principal, the school district, the health post, and the volunteer group that came from Trujillo.
We had over 100 kids there, ages 3 to 5 and 94 of them received dental evaluations... the rest freaked out and cried or hid from the dentists. The volunteer group put on a puppet show and gave all the kids free toothbrushes, while the local dentists demonstrated healthy tooth care and did the individual evaluations.
And it wouldn't be an event without a parade. So of course, we had awesome participation from the mothers and a super sweet parade.
As with most things, I think the pictures will give you a better idea of what happened than a babbly blog post. Enjoy :)
Bridget, that floss he's using is the stuff you sent me ;)
Musical Chairs
Three Little Pigs Puppet Show
Say "AAHH!"
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