Dental equipment donations will help establish new clinic in India
Chennai, India鈥擴davum Karangal, or “Helping Hands,” seeks donations of dental equipment that will be used to establish a dental clinic.
The nongovernmental organization serves the poor in 14 residential care centers in and around the cities of Chennai and Coimbatore in the Tamil Nadu state of India. More than 70 volunteers care for the 1,800 residents鈥攊ncluding abandoned and orphaned babies, women in distress, mentally ill and disabled, AIDS patients and the dying poor.
Udavum Karangal also operates a 500-student primary school and a 1,700-student secondary school for low-income students from the surrounding rural villages, plus vocational training centers for nursing, driving, computers and more.
The new dental clinic will serve the Thiruverkadu suburb of Chennai, where more than 100,000 people currently have no access to dental care.
Udavum Karangal seeks any of the following donations (used or new):
- functioning dental exam chair;
- dental exam stool;
- dental instruments;
- diagnostic instruments;
- filling instruments;
- restrictive instruments;
- dental X-ray machine;
- composite kits.
Dental offices with equipment to donate should contact Dani Clark Scano of Guizzetti & Associates, a Washington, D.C. based consulting firm assisting Udavum Karangal to arrange for donation shipment. E-mail dani@guizzetti.org, or call 1-202-527-7780 for more information or to make a donation.
Udavum Karangal is registered as a 501(c) (3) organization and all donations are tax exempt.
For more information on Udavum Karangal’s activities in India, visit www.udavumkarangal.org .
This request was received by the ADA Center for International Development and Affairs.聽