Burundi 

 Chad 

  DRCongo 

 Ethiopia 

 Kenya 

 In January 2010, Dentaid heard from a pastor in Kenya that he and his church were carrying out an organised programme of “Awareness Campaigns” amongst their villages to inform the local people about IOM.   Action group member, Barbara Koffman of Christian Relief Uganda (CRU), was able to arrange for a Ugandan dental colleague, Leonard, to travel to Kenya to work with the church team on one campaign, giving them input into general oral health advice as well as on IOM and taking the Mango Tree booklets and posters to aid them in the future. 
  Click here for the Pastor’s report.

A local Women’s’ Group also worked with the pastor on another campaign over the following weekend. 
 Click here for the Women’s’ Group report.

In January 2010, a Ugandan Public Health Dental Worker, Leonard Avaga, was commissioned by Dentaid and Christian Relief Uganda to assist the Pastor of a Kenyan church with his “Awareness Campaigns” to alert local people to the dangers of IOM.
 Click here to read Leonard’s report.   

  Rwanda 

   Somalia 

   Sudan 

In 2008, Heather Sharland, a midwife working with the Church Mission Society in Sudan, initiated discussions about the practice of IOM in Southern Sudan.
 Click here to read her report.  

For photos of Sudanese children with orthodontic problems following a history of IOM in infancy, click here

 Tanzania  

In February 2009, Natalie Noble, then a 4th year BDS student at the University of Sheffield, took a three-week elective placement in Tanzania under the auspices of Work the World.  Whilst there she undertook a prevalence study, with the guidance of the Dentaid action group, to see if IOM was still being practised there.
 Click here to read Natalie Noble’s report         

 Uganda 

In August 2008, Natalie Newell of Students Partnership Worldwide (www.spw.org) held a discussion session with Bakuseka Majja Women’s Group to find out their experience related to babies’ teething and knowledge of “Ebinno”.
 Click here to read her report on the meeting.