Healthy Smiles Society

Have you ever had a bad toothache? Dental disease and acute pain can affect anyone, anywhere and at anytime. Imagine being a child with no dental services available and imagine trying to function normally in your daily life or at play. Healthy Smiles Society (HSS) is an incorporated, registered, non-profit charity located in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. We provide mobile dental care services focusing on children in rural developing countries. We strive to offer care where basic dental services are not available. We are currently planning projects in developing countries. HSS works to improve access to basic dental care, education and services anywhere in the world where the need is great. Projects are funded with the support of our membership, partners, resource contributions and donations*. HISTORY OF HSS My name is Simon Jozzy, Founder and President of Healthy Smiles Society a non profit registered organization. In 2004, I went to visit Zimbabwe my country of birth. During my visit in the country I witnessed the suffering of young and old due to dental problems. As I traveled in the rural areas of the country and found that there were no dental services .It was hard to experience seeing people suffering from toothaches, infections, abscesses with no help at all. That broke my heart and said to myself what can I do to help. But that question I could not answer because I knew it involves lots of different factors which I was not ready to face to come up with the answer in order to help these people in the rural areas of the country. Back to Canada, I was still thinking about the experience I had witnessed in Zimbabwe. The question continues coming back to me again and again saying Simon what I was going to do about the experience, first reaction was nothing, but the question kept coming and started to bother me. Even though I wanted to do something to help the situation, I did or I do not have funds to do any project. Finally, one day I picked myself up and talked to some of my friends about my dental experience I saw in Zimbabwe. Through the help of my friends Healthy Smiles Society was born in January 2005 in the Canadian Arctic North in Inuvik NWT. It is a registered non-profit organization, which issues tax-deductible receipts at the end of the year for donations. In 2009 Healthy Smiles Society in partnership with another organization called Kindness In Action went for a dental mission to M'pumalanga in South Africa. In 2011 Healthy Smiles Society is going to Mongu- Zambia for a dental mission in July 2011. The society has lots of needs to be taken care of. We are looking for sponsors to support the society to buy dental equipment and support for further future missions to be able to provide dental services to rural developing countries as this is our mission. Without your support this dream will never come to be a reality. Children in developing countries are crying to us for help and I am convinced we can help. Please join and support HSS and help to make a different and to keep our aspiration alive.