East Timor
In 2013 Equal Health's team of volunteers provided 1,066 of the world's most vulnerable people with relief from dental pain in East Timor.
It's amazing the difference this can make to people's lives.
East Timor is known as Timor Leste to its citizens. Our local partner was Café Cooperative Timor (CCT). Dr Ross Brandon is Head of Clinic Café Timor which is the health branch of Café Cooperativa Timor and our local partner. He reported that all the communities visited in 2013 enthusiastically requested the program return in 2014 and beyond.
Dental services to Timor Leste's rural communities remain a rarity. We are looking forward to continuing our partnership with Equal Health for the benefit of these Timor Leste rural communities.
Plenty of cavities but with our helpers we saw 200 children in a morning at this school just outside Letefoho. – East Timor 2012 Volunteer -Bill Hawkes, Dentist, Subiaco, Western Australia