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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">IDH Group are the UK’s largest dental corporate with a network of over 500 practices nationwide. A team of explorers are set to conquer the summits of Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, walking/running 24miles in 10 hours. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So please dig deep and donate now in aid of Bridge2aid that has worked tirelessly to increase access to pain relief in Tanzania. Since 2002 Bridge2aid have trained over 160 local health workers in emergency dentistry, and now train more than 50 health workers each year. This training has not only directly treated tens of thousands of people but has also extended access to emergency dentistry services to people living in the rural areas. An estimated 1.6 million people now live within reach of someone who can help them when they have dental pain.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The money raised will be able to provide the following;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£1 pays for medicines to help treat the effects of leprosy for a resident at Bukumbi. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£2 pays for screening, pain relieving dental treatment and oral health education for a schoolchild in Mwanza. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£4 funds a filling at Hope Dental Centre for a child from one of Mwanza’s orphanages or HIV outreach projects. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£10 provides a microfinance loan to a member of the street community to help them establish a means of generating income.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£25 funds dental treatment of 40 people who attend one of our rural ‘Tooth Camps’. These events serve to provide free treatment to the rural population </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£75 buys a water pump to raise collected rainwater to a storage tank at Bukumbi</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£130 pays the monthly wages and transport costs for a Community Development worker at Bukumbi. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£205 buys a basic dental instrument kit and steriliser for a clinical officer who successfully completes our emergency dentistry course. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£360 pays for a dental therapist and nurse to staff our Mobile Dental Unit, which tours Mwanza’s schools providing free screening, treatment and oral health education. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£1200 refurbishes one dormitory room at Bukumbi. Each room is home to at least 4 people, many of whom suffer from leprosy or disabilities.</span></span></p>
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