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Dental Volunteer Programme

The Bridge2Aid Dental Volunteer Programme (DVP) was developed to allow qualified dental professionals to pass on their skills to local health care personnel in Tanzania. The programme began in 2004 in partnership with the Tanzanian Government.

Each 13-day trip has spaces for up to 12 dentists and 8 nurses (or hygienists willing to act as hygienists/nurses) who are willing to work in remote rural clinics developing the skills of Clinical Officers and delivering basic dental services to the community.

We are grateful to the Sunnymead Trust for the use of their manual during the DVP.

We are currently interviewing for our September and November 2011 trips. (A minimum of 1 full year's post-graduate experience for dentist applicants is required). To apply for your place, read on to the bottom of this page! We do sometimes have last minute cancellations, if you'd like to be kept on the waiting list for any future DVP trips then please let us know by emailing Ruth Bowyer.

For a personal account, you can read dentist Liz Stringer's experience of a 2008 DVP by clicking here.

Who will oversee my trip - who is my contact at Bridge2Aid?

Administration of DVPs is carried out by Ruth Bowyer, our Visits Administrator in the UK. If you have any questions not answered in our FAQ section, or to request an APPLICATION PACK, please email Ruth or call her on 07748 643006.

The itinerary is as follows (subject to change):

*Please note the February and June 2012 trips now have limited places available. There will be a waiting list operating on both trips.

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