Smiles Forever - En Vivo!

Well, not quite “live”, but in video.  This promo, shot and edited by Kyle Minahan, explains some of the history, mission, and idea of Smiles Forever.   Comments, questions?  By all means, leave them below!

Who Are Americans?

We are!  We’ve just found out that back in September Smiles Forever was featured on the new website Who are Americans? (www.whoareamericans.com).  This website explains itself thus:

Is there an alternative website to the thousands of foreign websites that portray Americans as bad and evil? Well, here foreign visitors can learn about and discuss American life with Americans, with a special look at good things Americans are doing in Africa, Asia, South America, Europe and around the world.

What a great idea for a website! Check out their article on Smiles here:

http://whoareamericans.com/2007/09/26/american-charity-bolivian-dental-hygienists/ 

Thanks Pierre Fauchard!

Smiles Forever would like to thank the Pierre Fauchard Foundation for a generous grant they awarded us in 2007. Their grant allowed Smiles to buy dental supplies and instruments for the new “Clinica Smiles Forever” that will open in Cochabamba in early 2008. This clinic will help give Smiles Forever the ability to further carry out its charitable deeds, and will also provide high quality preventative and dental hygiene services to the city of Cochabamba at large. Grants like this and donations from committed individual supporters allow Smiles Forever to continue to carry out its important mission.

(Above Founder Sandy Kemper poses with SF graduate Carolina Ayala and the new supplies and equipment purchased with the Pierre Fauchard grant. Below SF graduate Sonia Sayari also poses with the newly purchased materials).

Smiles Forever in Los Tiempos

The agreement-signing dinner that Smiles recently had with the Cochabamba Society of Implantology (see “Implanting Smiles”) was covered by the city newspaper, Los Tiempos. Follow the link below to see the article/photographs.

http://www.lostiempos.com/click/click150907/invitados2.php

Community Service Project - Corani Pampa (Part 2)

This past Thursday September 6th, we returned to the tiny village of Corani Pampa to complete our most recent round of community service work there (for part 1 of this project, see this post). We took a smaller group and finished up our DMF survey and flouride applications at the local school. We hope to return soon as our students continue to evaluate and plan their community service project there. Some pictures are below. (above, Dr. Sharon Golightly and SF student Emma Fuentes take a DMF statistic)

(US volunteer Ashley Chanadiri and SF student Silvia Nina Condori with schoolchild)

(left to right, SF students Silvia Nina Condori, Emma Fuentes, and graduated SF student Sonia Sayari await the start of the Corani Pampa school day)

(James Rider and Ashley Chanadiri prepare for the onrush of schoolchildren)