First Outreach -MAY 2018

The group started their outreach programme in the villages of the Volta region of Ghana and visited Hohoe, Tsito and Abutia.

Hundreds of beneficiaries both young and old after receiving a general health briefing by the dental team received basic health checks such as taking their blood pressure levels and ascertaining their respective peculiar health status prior to being addressed by the specialist dentists. The residents with various levels of dental problems received free dental screening, immediate necessary treatment and advise on the need to practice good oral hygiene.

Hohoe:  Days 1 & 2

On finally arriving at the St Augustine’s park where we arranged to use as the site for our outreach, we were confronted by a large crowd who were patiently waiting We were duly informed that the crowd had turned up from 5am that morning.

Second Outreach -April 2019

From the 23rd – 30th of April 2019, residents of Peki Blengo, Adaklu Hasu, Adidome and its surrounding townships benefited from the corporate social responsibility initiative of the two institutions.

The team was supported by Ms. Zaneta Arthur, a volunteer UK trained dental nurse and health care services manager, Mr. Douglas McAddy, a dental nurse with Knight Smile Dental Centre and a group of community health officers and dental surgery assistants from the various district hospitals from the communities that benefited from the dental outreach.

As part of Jonmoore’s corporate social responsibility which has health and well-being as one of its prime objectives, the initiative by Smile4Ghana bared relevance to its objective and thus, the partnership to bring the needed social impact to the respective communities the team toured.

Mr. Mitchell as Managing Director of Jonmoore commented:” We believe that if we can reach out to someone somewhere that is farther than where we operate to impact their lives, we would and that is what we are seeking to achieve through this initiative. In the years ahead, we are going to focus on the two areas that are passionate to us, which are education and health.”

Founder of Knight Smile Dental Centre based in Osu, Accra, Dr. George Brown and the leader of Smile Ghana indicated that most of the diseases that were treated over the six-day exercise were preventable and called for increased public health education, especially for would-be mothers on oral care and hygiene.

He said: “There is a big gap in educating would-be mother about the care of children and how they keep them from the period of breast-feeding up to weaning”.

“Most of the diseases we have treated here are preventable and if we can integrate oral health education in local health centres and antenatal clinics specifically about high sugar diets, we will eliminate most them.”

The member of Parliament for South Dayi District, Nelson Rockson Dafeamekpor, in an interview with Maritimelivegh at the Peki-Blengo outreach, expressed gratitude to the medical team and Jonmoore for the gesture which, he said, will help to improve the wellbeing of the people of the area. “This is a very good gesture and we are very happy to have them here as a district and as a people. This is a way of helping to improve the wellbeing of residents of the area,” he said.

He added: “Apart from the district hospital that is serving all purposes, we only have health posts and CHPS compounds which handle minor ailments and therefore, we can only fall on the benevolence of such corporate institutions, NGOs and specialist practitioners to help close the healthcare service delivery gap in the district.”

Third Outreach – 2022

From 2020 to till date we used the time to review our activities and restarted in April 2022.