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Community
service programs
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Dental
Clinic (1990-present)
Our
projects began in 1990 with ten women who had the goal of working
together to live better. The dental clinic was the first project
to be developed with the financial support of a Sister Parish church
in Bemidji, Minnesota, and working with the technical assistance
of several Guatemalan dentists. Several of us were trained to be
dental assistants, learning to clean and extract teeth, take impressions,
buy materials, take inventory, and maintain the clinic. The clinic
also has received economic assistance from a couple in Maryland.
Currently, we have a fully-equipped clinic and dentist from the
community which is open two mornings a week.
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