Provide Dental Care for 67,000 Bolivian Children!

Our Combined Dental Care Team Goes to Highlands town of Marquina in May!

Dear Supporters,

We are in a wonderful stage in the development of the Silver Diamine Fluride (SDF) application program and the subsequent application of Glass ionomer Cement (GIC) fillings, in the community of Marquina, Municipality of Quillacollo in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

1500 Children in highlands town of Marquina will be helped!

    In previous days, the coordination meeting was held with the members of the Board of directors of parents, educational authorities of the Marquina educational unit and the San Rafael Refuge organization (an organization also affiliated with GlobalGiving) to carry out in the month of May 2023.  The implementation of this program will bring benefits to more than 250 children with ages ranging from 3 to 8 years, this being the pilot stage which with your continuous support we will be able to reach the more than 1500 children who are part of this educational unit.

Tri-lingual Registration Document includes native Quechua

    The expectations on the part of the local population are high and the participation of Smiles Forever, the community, authorities, partner organizations and all those who make up this dream is paying off. Likewise, a display of multi-culturalism is being carried out since the registration documentation of the process will include the languages English, Spanish and the native Quechua of the area, since the factor that many of the parents originating from the area only speak the native language is taken into account. 

Women’s Health Center Added to our free dental clinic clients

Regarding the daily work in our Smiles Forever dental clinic, we have begun to provide free services to a new organization, the Women's Help Center, which is dedicated to providing help to pregnant women who have been abandoned and in a bad financial – emotional situation and therefore a complex situation regarding their oral health. This center will take care of the transfer and transportation of its beneficiaries to our clinic because its work not only covers urban areas, but also rural areas of Cochabamba.

Once again, thanks all of you who give us your support, and thus are an important part of Smiles Forever.  It is through your participation that we can provide a better future not only for the present, but also for new generations.

GlobalGiving's Little by Little Campaign adds 50% to your donations up to $50 until Midnight Washington, D.C. time Friday April 7th.  Not only may you donate through our link, but you may also give directly to Refugio Rafael.  You'll see Connie de Jong, their founder in our pictures.  Soon Smiles Forever Founder Sandy Kemper will again be here in Bolivia and traveling to Marquina.  So much is being done in our joint effort!