School Backpacks (Boys and Girls)

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Regular Dental Check Ups $15.00
Feminine Hygiene Products $25.00

$75.00

Education is very important to the Maasai children but they have few supplies. No pencils, no paper, no notebooks, no crayons.

 

They walk to school with nothing, use what little is at the school and maybe, if they are lucky, get a chance to use one of the few text books. They then walk home with nothing.

 

We want to provide well equipped backpacks with all the basis supplies every school child needs. But here is the magic!! We will go to the schools and tell the kids bout the backpacks. We will give them the backpacks when they come to the clinic and have their dental check-ups, have their sealants placed, and have a 30 minute oral hygiene lesson. At the time we will get all their data so we can track them from that point.

 

We can provide backpacks for $x.xx. Choose a quantity below to make a donation.

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The Kenya Initiative for New Dentistry is a mission to bring preventive dentistry to the remote villages of the Maasai tribe people of Kenya and Tanzania.

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Our goal is to enroll every school child in the Maasai Mara Region of Kenya in a twice a year dental check-up program and place decay preventing sealants on all of their molars and premolars.

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