ROTARY DENTAL MISSION TO THE PHILIPPINES January 4 to January 24, 2014

In partnership with:Caring Hearts Dentistry SocietyRotary Club of Richmond Sunrise Rotary World Help

Locations: Panglao, Bohol,  Cebu, Tacloban, Leyte

Projects:

1.  Set up dental clinics in communities of Panglao, Bohol, Cebu City and Tacloban, Leyte.

2.  Opening a dental clinic in Manila.

3.  Provide basic humanitarian care to indigent and less fortunate Filipinos.

4.  Distribution of toothpaste and toothbrushes.

5.  Opening a Rotary Library & Computer Centre.

6.  Distribution of hospital equipment and medical supplies.

7.  Distribution of toys and stuff animals to children.

8.  Educating patients on dental hygiene.

9.  Provide professional advancement and impart latest technology to our local counterparts.

10.To conduct a feeding program for the earthquake victims of Bohol and Cebu City

In cooperation with:

Arcona- Henry Schein, Canada Inc, Canadian Embassy (Philippines), Colgate Canada, Philippine Consulate General (Vancouver), Patterson Denta, MC Associates, Pfizer Canada and KMZ Productions

Dr. Danilo & Nerissa Salcedo Caring Hearts Dentistry Society Tel: 604-5226772 / 604-3755617 / 778-861-6772

Fax: 604-5200037 Email: caringheartsdentistry@yahoo.comdand_62001@yahoo.com  / honeyg_8@yahoo.com

Dr. Gloria Samosa Glosa Dental Centre Tel: 604-874-0868 / 604-961-0971 / 604-439-1113

Email: gsamosa@yahoo.com/ glosadent@shaw.ca

Elena Agala Rotary Club of Richmond Sunrise Rotary World Help Tel: 604-690-0551

Email: elena_agala@hotmail.com / e.agala@rotaryworldhelp.com www.rotaryworldhelp.com

Dr. Francisca Valdes Dr. Francisca Valdes Inc. Tel: 604-434-4412 / 604-603-4958 / 604-603-4989

Email: kiksval808@yahoo.com

CARING HEARTS DENTISTRY SOCIETY:  ABOUT US

http://caringheartssociety.wix.com/chds-bc

Caring Hearts Dentistry Society is a registered non-profit society that is purely civic and social in nature. It is a group of Canadian-Filipino dentists and volunteers from Vancouver, British Columbia conducting International dental missions. Our team members include dentists, nurses, hygienists, dental assistants, medical workers, social worker, volunteers and Rotarians from Canada as well as local counterparts from Rotary partner of mission sites. We aim to provide free dental services and basic humanitarian care to indigents and less-fortunate individuals in remote communities. It is an organization dedicated to excellence in dental service through dental missions to ensure optimal oral health care of the needy.

Caring Hearts Dentistry Society (CHDS), in cooperation with Rotary World Help, is bound for Panglao, Bohol and Cebu City, Philippines on January 2014 for a two-week Dental Mission. With an effort to enhance the country’s oral education and oral health system toward inclusive growth, CHDS Team is determined to help the indigents and poor people in the Philippines. Furthermore, the Society also have an intense desire to bring development to the poor through creation of libraries, education facilities and computer centers in poor communities of Bohol, Cebu City and Manila. CHDS Team wants to ensure that Filipinos, especially children, get a quality health care necessary to survive and live a healthy productive life.

Elena Agala of Rotary World Help and Rotary Club of Richmond Sunrise heads this International project together with Dr. Danilo P. Salcedo as CHDS president. Other founding Board Members are Dr. Gloria L. Samosa, Dr. Francisca S. Valdes, Francisco Valdes, Pacifico Alegro, and Nerissa Salcedo.

Dr. Marietta Quiambao is also joining this dental project.

HISTORY

On January 2013, the three (3) dentists and Elena Agala coined the idea of forming a Dental Team that will perform free dental service and promote advancement of oral health and oral education to indigent people in the Philippines. All veterans of numerous international dental missions, creating a Society to do free dental projects are an easy task. Having had worked together as a Dental Team on February 2010 in three different provinces of the Philippines, namely, Talisay, Bacolod, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija and Nasugbu, Batangas, offering free professional service has always been their common advocacy and interest. The Team have a great urgency to inject collective efforts to save adults and children’s oral health problems. They also want to inspire people to practice oral hygiene.

On the first week of August 2013, CHDS Mission Team started packing and sorting out 9 dental chairs with complete operating system, dental x-ray machines, dental supplies, hospital equipment, dialysis machines, cardio-pulmonary monitors, mammography apparatus, ultrasound machines, microscopes, mattresses, beds, clothing, blankets, books, toys, computer sets, boxes of Firefighter equipment/gears and other health needs  for the January 2014 Dental Mission to Panglao, Bohol and Cebu City which will be shipped  ahead of the dental project.

Eventually, the cargo container was sent to Panglao, Bohol & Cebu City on the second week of October 2013 from Vancouver, British Columbia.

On July, September and October 2013, three (3) cargo containers with similar contents were shipped to Manila, Philippines. Moreover, CHDS Mission Team will be launching three (3) Dental Clinics in three (3) poor hospitals in the said municipality by January 2014. A feeding program for the earthquake victims of Bohol will also be part of CHDS activities.

DONATIONS All donations, in cash and in kind, are intended for acquisition of medicines, dental supplies, instruments and equipment.