Dental Volunteers

  Israel

Jerusalem

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks and 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Dates: all year around

Description: You can improve a child's quality of life!
* Over 200,000 children live in poverty in Jerusalem and can not afford basic dental care.
* Dental Volunteers for Israel provides free dental care to the underprivileged children and at-risk youth from all religious and ethnic groups in Jerusalem.
* More than 12,000 treatments are provided annually by international dental volunteers and the local assistants.
* Only you can help your hands and your skill can help save another child's teeth.

Do something for your soul, do something for the children of Jerusalem!

Highlights: The Trudi Birger Dental Clinics Dental Volunteers for Israel program operates a free dental clinic in Jerusalem for disadvantaged children and youth-at-risk aged 5-18. The Jerusalem Municipality Welfare Services decides who, among the approximately 200,000 children in Jerusalem living below the poverty level are eligible for dental treatment at DVI. Recently, the clinic has also started helping the other forgotten children of Jerusalem Youth at Risk, street kids and those in shelters. All these children then receive a full range of preventative and restorative dentistry. Most importantly, these children and their families receive this comprehensive oral hygiene program at no cost.

Mrs Trudi Birger, a holocaust survivor, who saw children care as her will in life, established DVI in 1980. Dentists from around the world who volunteer for periods of 1-4 weeks man the clinic. During the year 2007, 121 dentists from over 20 countries volunteered at the clinic. With current resources, the clinic is able to treat an average of 100-150 children per day, providing 12,000 treatments a year.

The clinic contains six dental workstations, an X-ray unit, and the Donal Berman Preventative Oral Health Care Unit where children receive oral hygiene education. The children can thereby receive a full range of preventative and restorative dentistry. Most importantly, this comprehensive oral-hygiene program is provided at no charge.

Qualifications: Dental Volunteers for Israel is looking for licensed dentists who would come to Jerusalem to provide dental care for underprivileged children of Jerusalem.

Minimum Education: Bachelor of Science

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Israel Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Dental Volunteers for Israel's Mission Statement: DVI aims to improve the quality of life of Jerusalem's most needy children, regardless of race or religion, through comprehensive dental services and preventative programs. Moreover, our mission is to treat these children with love and compassion.

Year Founded: 1980