Life-changing adventure

I first heard about Bridge2aid at a South Wales foundation training study day and since then I had always been very interested in volunteering with them. I work at mydentist, and every year they sponsor and fund two clinicians to travel to Tanzania. Whilst reading mydentist’s internal clinical magazine I saw they were taking on applications for the next trip; I applied and felt very lucky to be selected to take part in the trip to the Morogoro region of Tanzania in September 2017.

Once selected, mydentist linked me up with the UK bridge2aid team who were fantastic. They were really helpful with providing advice on Visas, vaccinations and arranging flights to Tanzania. They work very closely with the local Tanzanian team and everything ran very smoothly – it’s clear there’s lots of hard work behind the scenes to make the trip possible. The mydentist practice in Tonypandy, South Wales where I work as an associate were also very supportive of me making the trip, and it was great to update them with video diaries during my time in Africa.