Overseas blogs

After months of preparation, collecting stock donations and encouraging people to contribute to my JustGiving page, departure day had arrived, as I met with the other 11 volunteers at Heathrow…

My reason for getting into volunteering was to help people and to remind myself why I became a dental nurse in the first place! A lovely lady named Sarah, who…

A voyage of discovery Dentistry is a critical healthcare profession, but as we all know, it can become a little repetitive. In fact, dentistry may be the only profession that…

Two days of dental outreach were carried out in Kandago and Mparo in the Rukiga district of Uganda on the 19th and 20th of March 2024. These were done to…

As you can well imagine, Uganda is different on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin to relate. But however chaotic, makeshift and dusty it…

After 18 months of planning, we were finally ready to set off on what was to be the most rewarding, exhausting and inspiring trip I have ever embarked on. We…

In June 2023 I headed out to Uganda to volunteer with Dentaid The Dental Charity. We met at Heathrow Airport and travelled together as a team, there were 12 of…

I went on a dental volunteering trip to Nepal wanting to help, but the place allowed me to find out more about myself. On this trip especially I felt as…

I recently travelled to Cambodia for 2 weeks with Dentaid The Dental Charity. A team of 11 of us volunteered from all over the UK including dentists, dental nurses, therapists…

The Enga Province in P.N.G.’s Western highlands, is home to some of the country’s most recently discovered people groups. Its terrain is mountainous and rugged, and much of the province…