Tuesday 24 February 2009

178) World to Smile: Intervention in Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau

The 'world a Smile' will be discussed in the next day on May 30, during a reunion of the Rotary Club of Maia. 'The World Smile "is a project of the Association of Doctors Dentists Solidary Portuguese, which aims to" improve the oral health in Portugal and the world.
According to a statement of the association, the project currently has two ongoing measures to support oral health in countries in need of Portuguese, as Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, carried out by doctors dentists in addition to volunteers who perform various dental treatments, also campaigns to promote awareness of oral hygiene.
The next mission of the World a Smile ", developed by the Rotary and the Rotaract Club of Maia, aims to collect medical 'consumables and medicines, to be used by the association during the months of August and September, in Guinea-Bissau.
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All initiatives for the disadvantaged are always very welcome. But attention will never forget the children who suffer both in Portugal and more than children in Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau.
Unfortunately, no political power to resolve the problem of oral health in Portugal, would all bury our heads in the sand. Thus the politicians we have in Portugal: inability to feel emotions or any kind of feelings for children and young people helpless before the complete neglect of the National Health Service for their oral health. A shame of a member of the European Union.
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COMMENTS RECEIVED BY EMAIL (17.07.2007)
Only a little additional information. The news is the projects last year. Currently the non-governmental organization the World Smile, develops projects of Oral Health in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, and next October in a project in partnership with AMI.
However, being a Portuguese non-governmental organization, and by being aware of the reality of oral health in poor communities existing in Portugal for the World Smiling, developing campaigns for Oral Health in the north and south of the country is also partner of the project " Healthy teeth "of EntrAjuda.
The institutions that the World Smile supports are: Casa Pia, House of Gaiato, Lagarteiro of Neighborhoods, Schools, Orphanages, homes and private institutions of social solidarity. We know that Portugal should not exceed the relevant bodies to act and change the sad reality of Oral Health, but we can warn, expose and confront the authorities so that they are ashamed of their failure.
FROM NOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION. TOTAL SO HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION TO EXTEND YOUR BUSINESS.
Gerofil

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