223. BRAZIL: Project Smile reaches Corumbá

Project Smile is a private philanthropic organization, non-profit that provides free medical and dental care for low income households. After serving the coal and the settlement Mato Grande project comes to town.

Created by Nelson Nunes Ferreira dental surgeon in 1986 in the city of Pedro Gomes (MS), the bus office of Project Smile is a fully equipped and travels by municipalities, which already had over 100 thousand people, with an average 20 to 30 people per day. Nelson explained to Corumbá On Line project that aims to serve and serve well to those who need a cost.

"As professionals, we need help and do our part. So I decided to work and serve and not be able to go to a dental office. " Besides providing medical and dental care, the project also conducts lectures on oral hygiene, sex education and STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases).

The project has two buses and remains at least 30 days depending on the demand for public and may be extended for a longer time in each municipality. And it passed by municipalities Anastácio, Bodoquena, Camapuã, Dois Irmãos do Buriti, Rio Verde, Bonito and eleven more municipalities. The other bus is in Miranda and the next city to be visited will be Jardim.

Abrão Marina de Oliveira, resident of the neighborhood Central America, took his son Luciano, 7 years, to receive dental care, as the attendance at the neighborhood has a few professionals to meet the demand. "To be seen that we face a huge queue and often the dentist or the right answer," said the Corumbá On Line Marina.

After his son attended Marina leaves very pleased with the work done by the dentist. "My son has never been so well attended and thanks to the doctor he will not lose the tooth, but we have to get back here next week to finish the treatment. All dentists should be like the Nelson, because he knows my son and not attended with a dedication and an affection as if I had paid. "

Corumbá On Line

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Volunteers in action for a good cause. That the example is contagious and beyond borders in a world where social contrasts between the rich and the poor become ever greater.

A fraternal embrace those who, on the other side of the Atlantic, working for the disadvantaged. It is the hope that here in Portugal, also the volunteer to the next is a reality.