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From Humble Beginnings
Health-Point Foundation began providing emergency dental services to asylum-seekers out of the back of a van in 2015. Volunteer dentists would drive around Greece to meet the needs of refugees, setting up wherever they could to relieve pain and suffering. As thousands of new arrivals continued to come to Greece, HPF began using canvas and plywood to put together temporary sites to provide care, eventually opening a more permanent clinic in March 2018, on the island of Lesvos, where the greatest need was.
Since that time, hundreds of volunteers have come from around the world to help provide thousands of treatments to the many asylum-seekers now in Greece. Through generous donations of time and money from people like you, our two-chair clinic in Moria Camp continues to be the only one offering free dental care to the 18,000+ refugees living there. This clinic, staffed and organized by our Ground Team, has the ability to provide hygienic, high-standard care in a comfortable, clean environment right inside the high fences of this large camp.
Most recently, through a generous donation organized by volunteer dentist Dr. Armin Reinartz, the Braun and Muyrers families of Germany, and the German branch of Secours Dentaire International, two new suction units were delivered via Turkey with the help of Tayna and Kini from our ground team. Two new dental chairs, donated by Dr. Simon Morris with the assistance of Juliet Bill and Dr. Alex Schafigh, now create a much more comfortable experience for our patients as well. We’ve come a long way since Dr. Ola Hassan first arrived in Greece with three suitcases of dental supplies on December 24th, 2015 and we can’t wait to see what we’ll accomplish together in 2020!
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