Meet Three of Our Dental Health Volunteers

Meet Awamaki’s Volunteers: Names: Ellis, Daniel, and Joshua Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama Positions: Health Volunteers (Dental Fluoridation Campaign) A: What does a typical day look like at your volunteer placement? D: The beauty of this program is that there is rarely a “typical day.” In the health program, we were doing anything from organizing medicine to helping patients at mobile health clinics. J: The three of us were in charge of a dental fluoridation program, since there’s no fluoride in the water here. We go to schools and give them a gel fluoride and a toothbrush, then show them how to...