'Hakuna matata': a volunteer's adventure.
When Simon Ernst decided he wanted to work for six months as a volunteer dentist in Africa, he expected to spend all his time working in one place. Instead he found himself organising the trip of a lifetime, working with three different organisations in three different African countries. Here is describes some of the lows of the planning process, and the extraordinary highs he experienced once he arrived.
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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, South Wales. simon.ernst@gmail.com
D003815:Dentists; D006801:Humans; D013019:South Africa; D013636:Tanzania; D014454:Uganda; D014838:Volunteers