Dear Supporters, as of January 2021 there are no plans for a trip until the global pandemic is contained. Perhaps a donation to your local Food Bank might be more appropriate at this time. Planning for our next destination will probably commence in the Fall 2021. Reviews of our most recent activities (Guatemala 2018, Easter Island 2019) can be found below or on our website. (cdri.ca)

Thank you for your continuing support for our dental work abroad.

We are a group of Canadian dentists and volunteers who provide free dental services as well as dental health education to marginalized people from isolated communities. We also seek to train local health workers in emergency dental care, so that they may continue to serve their community after we leave. It all began with four friends  who met at University of Toronto while studying dentistry.We organized  a dental health project, in the jungle of Ecuador. After that life changing experience we  decided to continue with these projects and later created CDRI. So far Doctors Eckert, Kreher, Humeres and Yunghave provided free dental services to thousands of people from Ecuador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Dominican Republic and Thailand (Burmese Refugees).

Our project is to improve  health in developing nations, by providing free basic dental services and preventive  guidance  to those people economically and socially marginalized, and by  enhancing the capacity of local health providers to deal with the dental needs of the local population.

These activities are provided  specifically to those sectors of the population that are economically and socially marginalized. These projects take place in locations that are physically isolated from medical and dental services, like the two projects in the Peten region of Guatemala (2004, 2007), Rapa-Nui (2019) and Amacari, Bolivia (2001), or in urban locations where sectors of the population have no access to local dental treatment due to their meager economical condition   (Dominican Republic 2005, Ecuador 2011, 2014 and Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala 2018) or socially marginalized people like  Burmese Refugees living in Mae Sot, Thailand (2016)