SUPER THRILLED to win Round 1 and $500 in @Travelocity’s #TravelForGood contest! Our dream trip (Grand Prize) is to go to Kenya and help KingaAfrica non-profit dental charity teach the kids how to brush their teeth! Also, we want to help raise awareness about the hazards of Infant Oral Mutilation (IOM) which is widely practiced in Africa and dangerous to kids’ health.
(While we’re in Kenya, we’d love to stop by The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and blog about the baby elephants there, many of them orphaned due to the poaching crisis. As always, we will focus on tusk development and usage. Did you know that tusks are actually incisor teeth and are used for finding food?)
What could be more dreamy than touching the lives of thousands of impoverished needy children who have never seen a toothbrush before, and saving children from the painful, deadly practice of Infant Oral Mutilation?
THANK YOU TRAVELOCITY & TRAVEL FOR GOOD FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN THE “Travelocity #TravelForGood Voluntourism Giveaway!”
SMILES OF A LIFETIME PROGRAM, Kenya, Africa 2015
Smiles of a Lifetime
Smiles of a Lifetime Program in Kenya, Africa
BRUSH THE INSIDES AND THE OUTSIDES!
INFANT ORAL MUTILATION (IOM)
A common practice in Kenya and other African countries, IOM is the unsanitary, painful, and cruel removal of unerupted baby teeth (usually the cupsids or canines) that are mistakenly believed to be the source of fever, worms, and diarrhea in toddlers and infants. IOM is performed without local anesthesia by a local medicine man or woman with unsterilized knives, wire hangers, or other tools. Many children have contracted HIV and fatal blood infections from IOM.
MolarTron is committed to helping Kinga Africa raise awareness and education about this ineffective, dangerous, and widespread practice.
Should we win the GRAND PRIZE, $10,000 would help Kinga Africa purchase a much-needed vehicle and supplies to transport Francis Muthama, Director, and his staff into the remote villages of Kenya where education is sorely needed.
Infant Oral Mutilation
