Around Good People is a non-profit and Grassroots Oral Healthcare Advocacy Activists, bringing a unique community-led bespoke oral health care delivery outreaches in the remote unserviced communities of mountainous rural Nepal, in collaboration with international dental/oral health professionals and students. This unique student-led self-sustaining initiative has been bringing about oral health care delivery, servicing thousands of people, at no charge, throughout the mountain communities of Nepal for past three years. The overall experience for the volunteering students and the empowered communities has been spectacularly successful and distinctive.
Our Story
AGP brings together supervising dentists and staff trained in Nepal with international dental volunteers who come to share in 10 days/2 week programmes that provide essential treatment to those who need it most. The outreach provides access to the beautifully rich culture of the Nepali people and a chance to explore the outdoors and breathtaking Himalayas. Facilitating free dental treatment for the local people is key, whilst also ensuring that our volunteers have every opportunity to make the most of what Nepal has to offer!
In every community in which we work, we have long-standing relationships with local organizations who communicate real-time needs and objectives to the Around Good People Team. Since early 2014, we’ve made the (dental placements) volunteer abroad experience of a lifetime possible for hundreds of International Dentistry/Oral Health Care student/professional adventurers just like you and with our passionate ground staff and social activists working for oral health care in the remote mountain villages of Nepal, you can rest assured that we’ll provide you with the full experience—a safe, immersive, and impacting dentistry experience/adventure of a lifetime.
Our Goal
The goal of Around Good People is to address the inadequate gap in oral healthcare infrastructure in Nepal. We believe that both the social need of the unprivileged/marginalised mountain communities and the continued experiential learning needs of the dentistry students can combine well. We also want to bring fully qualified dental professionals to understand just how vital their training is and provide them with a culturally enriching experience of a lifetime. We strive to bring the international dental volunteer community who can meet the basic dental care needs of the resource-poor Nepal in a sustainable way. We want to show that the synergy between international volunteerism and empowered grassroots level initiative can be a viable model, and a tool that can cross over into a viable social good.
Integrity
AGP respects honesty within and outside the organisation. We practice ethical business principles in dental outreach, medicine, treatment, law and spirit, and strives for patient/partner delight. Fostering leadership and volunteerism is the essence of our growth. Through continuous collaboration with the partner communities and the overseas volunteers, we are always striving for innovation, research, networking, knowledge sharing and alliance, to bring the best dental outreach in the uncovered areas of mountain Nepal. Around Good People strives to excel and stay ahead.