Dentaid Annual Report 2021 (A4 - single page) - Flipbook - Page 4
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FOCUS ON
UK
It has been a year of extremes for Dentaid’s UK
work. After the disappointment of cancelling all
our clinics during the first lockdown and several
months of work to restart our programmes,
our mobile dental unit was back on the road in
September when we made a welcome return to
Trinity House in Winchester. And since then we
haven’t stopped.
Demand for our services has rocketed and most
days our mobile dental units are out at soup
kitchens, hostels and day centres with volunteers
providing dental care for the most vulnerable
people in our society.
New clinics
In 2021 we have started
new, regular clinics for people
experiencing homelessness
in Bournemouth, Eastbourne,
Hastings, Littlehampton,
Portsmouth, Weymouth, Wilton
and Worthing.
And we’ll be launching new
clinics in London, Birmingham,
Thanet, Bradford, Leeds, York,
Lowestoft, North Shields and
Felixstowe later this year.
Reaching refugees and
asylum seekers
In February we paid our first visit
to Napier Barracks in Folkestone
to provide dental care for
refugees and asylum seekers.
Every month our mobile dental
unit visits the barracks with
volunteers offering emergency
treatment and oral health advice
for people who crossed The
Channel in the hope of finding
a better life.