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Afghanistan Dental Relief Project


  eleven years I have been working      the Taliban were expelled from the government in 2003. Much earlier, however, the country’s infrastructure (both technical


        invasion in 1979 when almost all of the businessmen, educators,  the country to save their lives.


           incapable of sustaining itself independently.


For Afghanistan


to recover, its infrastructure needs to be rebuilt. For example,                                              factor in the country’s high mortality rate.


When I personally saw that the military approach was not going to aid the poor people, I planned a trip there to help out.


I


         11,000 feet), where I provided treatment for about 40 orphan boys for two weeks. (There are over three million orphans in Afghanistan.) Seeing them in that remote place, abandoned, without shoes, and without promise of a future impressed me deeply. Even though I did not speak the Pashto language, they were very interested in what I was doing. So I had each one 


  with seven or eight chronically abscessed teeth. I learned that         


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We have obtained permission from the Afghanistan Ministry


of


Public Health to self-fund our project. We are now allowed to provide certain non-basic,               provide treatment for non-Afghans for the fee that they would pay in Dubai, UAE. Only sixteen treatments of non-Afghans will


The modern dental lab in Kabul. 


any sterility). Seeing the need of the Afghan people, and the          for dental work, I returned to California with a mission: to construct a modern dental clinic in a shipping container, send                      that provided free training of orphans, widows, handicapped, or otherwise disadvantaged young       lab technology, and dental hygiene.      were hired to work in the clinic, which now has twelve employees and has              School of Dental Technology has graduated many classes of dental assistants, lab technicians, and hygienists, all of them the 


Project, Inc. is working to restore the missing dental infrastructure in Afghanistan.


The Afghanistan 


The Afghanistan Dental Relief Project, Inc. is working to restore the missing dental infrastructure in Afghanistan. Using the            our plan. We can provide trained technicians to assist Afghan  


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