Robin Mason:. Stacey Edwards - Dental Charity Work

Thu, Jan 26th 2017 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Weekly meeting with guest speaker


President Jim Walker welcomed members to last week's meeting of the Rotary Club at the Mansfield House Hotel when Past President Robin Mason introduced the speaker Stacey Edwards of the North Bridge Dental Practice, Hawick, who gave an excellent, well constructed, illustrated talk on her work in Tanzania, Africa in September, 2016 with the charity 'Bridge 2 Aid'.  She  undertook a 2 week course assisting in oral and dental health care with the residents there who were suffering from teeth problems.  'Bridge 2 Aid' runs courses where they treat patients and also train-up teams of native people who can adminster dental care after they leave.  They worked in the most basic of conditions where even clean water was a problem.  It was an eye-opening and unbelievable experience for Stacey and she experienced a different perspective of dental care from what she usually experiences. Questions arising were admirably dealt with and led to further discussion and the members were full of admiration for the work Stacey undertook and the manner in which she explained it after which President Jim gave the vote of thanks.

A certificate and letter of thanks was read out from The Wheelchair Foundation UK for the £300 donation from the club which, ironically, went to assist a patient in Tanzania with the gift of a wheelchair.

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