Day 8 - Saturday March 2, 2013 CLINIC DAY - TAN PHUOC District, TAN THANH A Elementary School

In this area, when I asked the children what their parents do, almost all of them said farming rice or other agricultural labor work.  Yesterday we were in Go Cong Dong where most children live in the fishing village, their parents work on a fishing boat, in net making factory, sorting shrimp, cleaning fish, processing the catch of the day.  Regardless of making a subsistence living off the land or sea, these families live on less than $2 - 3/day, a price of a cup of Starbuck coffee here in the US.

We treated 297 children, giving dental health education and dental gift bag to all 896 students of this school, 145 gifts to the teachers and families with children under 5.  All of these work in a day and we still have time for group photos with the kids, everyone still smiling, that is the best part!

Hung is showing parents how to help with the nightly brushing for their kids during our dental education session.

Everyone in our team brought lots of toys and useful clothing items to give the the kids.  Making kids happy can be very addictive!

Photo of the "crew" after a good clinic day!  Another terrific day in Vietnam!