Smiles Forever: Community Service Project

August 27th and 28th SmilesForever students, staff, and various US volunteers traveled to the tiny village of Corani Pampa (see map in previous post) to carry out what has become a yearly community service project for the SmilesForever Foundation. This year our work in Corani Pampa was composed of 3 different stages: educating the schoolchildren of Corani Pampa about proper brushing and general dental hygiene techniques, reinforcing that education by having the children practice with toothbrushes and toothpastes donated by the SmilesForever Foundation, and applying a flouride varnish to every child’s teeth. We also took a DMF statistic in order to better evaluate the dental condition of the Corani Pampa population. Our plan is for Corani Pampa to become to main community service project directed by our students. We also hope to return much more frequently to ensure that our efforts there aren’t wasted. We applaud the efforts of all our students, our graduated student coordinators, our staff, and the American Volunteers who lent their expertise and time to this project. We also appreciate that trust and good will of the Corani Pampa community. Thanks! (above, SF student Silvia Nina Condori helps a child practice proper brushing techniques)

(SF student Rosalia Nina Condori, Dr. Elizabeth Aviles, and graduated SF student coordinator Jhenny Vargas teach proper brushing techniques to a classroom of children)