Bulletin No. 1, 2013

Let’s Build a Bridge 25  Together with other students and teachers from the School of Public Health, and students from Oxford University, she spent one day teaching children at the village school. She and her partner taught the kids about oral hygiene and showed them how to brush their teeth. She said, ‘Dental disease is serious in China. We hope to equip kids with the right knowledge from a young age so they will take care of their teeth.’ After a few days, Yvonne saw the students again and was very pleased to find that they still remembered what she had taught. ‘We have sown the seeds. The results are tangible.’ Yvonne, who had been on a service mission to rural Cambodia, believed the greatest benefit of this expedition to Gansu was being able to implement what she was taught in class. ‘We learnt a lot of different theories and approaches to problems, but application in a real-life situation is the most important. We were able to do this in the village. The data collected by the survey will be useful for future research.’