Volunteering trips to refugee camps on Lesvos and Samos

International dental charity Dentaid is launching new volunteering trips to both islands after seeing the desperate need for dental treatment in the camps. There are some refugees who can’t eat solid food because their dental pain is so severe and many more are in urgent need of treatment.

Volunteers will spend a week on either Lesvos or Samos working as part of a small team. Dentaid has been offered containers to use as a dental surgery. The charity is sending medical supplies, portable and disposable equipment and has made arrangements for sterilisation.

The first Dentaid volunteers are heading to Samos this Sunday and they will treat some of the most urgent cases in the main camp on the island. In Lesvos, volunteers will work in Moira Camp where about 3,000 people are living in tents and Kara Tepe which is home to about 800 women and children. They will work alongside Dentaid’s charity partners Euro Relief and the Boat Refugee Foundation who provide food, supplies and shelter for the refugees and approached Dentaid about the refugees’ dental needs.