Just a preface: the next few posts are an update of what we've accomplished in the past couple weeks...a lack of internet access mixed with illness have kept me away from the blog for a while
We stayed in Pokhara for 4 days and each day we traveled almost an hour to a school where we provided dental education and treatment for all the children, over 200 total. On the 3rd day of the camp we had an open day for the general public and we were overwhelmed by the number of people trying to fit into the classroom. We worked well into the evening that day to provide care for everyone. It was really encouraging for us to be able to provide restorative care to these people, especially the students because there were so many children who already had cavities on permanent teeth and without a restoration they would have had no choice but to eventually have the tooth extracted.
Also one day while we were there part of our group hiked down about 30 minutes to an elementary school where our partner organization was starting a brushing program in the school. The way the program works is the organization provides toothbrushes and toothpaste to everyone and the teachers make sure the students brush atleast once every day. It was great to see the teachers working with the students on brushing and everyone out in the school's courtyard brushing their teeth. We almost took a back seat and just observed while the teachers led their students in proper brushing technique, which was great because we won't be there every day to watch them.
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