 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim dear Imam Hussein TV viewers, we are now in the Sayyid-e-Ruqayye School in Karbala. There is a big project here called Glooball Kindness with me, Dr. Assistant Mahmood. He will introduce the project for us. Thank you and well, As-Salaamu Alaykum, thank you for coming over here and witnessing our project lively. This is our day four. Today we are going to be wrapping up so you see a lot of activity happening. We have been here, the Glooball Kindness have been here for the last seven years. To Karbala this year we had Karbala and Najaf as well as Kazmen first time but Karbala and Najaf have been serviced for the last seven years. We bring our own equipments, Dr. Hussein and his wife, they have been instrumental in getting this organized along with a lot of help from other dentists from different parts of the world, mainly from Canada, US, England and Tanzania. They do this peace ability to help the children of Karbala, Najaf and Kazmen. So let me walk you through to the whole process, as I said. What is the exact service you provide here? We provide all kinds of services in terms of dental hygiene as well as looking at the state of children's teeth, age group from four to twelve, thirteen and some of the schools have been visited before so it's a question of monitoring how the children have been doing. Most importantly, providing them with the tools and resources, toothbrushes, toothpaste and oral hygiene lessons to make sure that they take care of their own teeth so that it doesn't get any worse. Because some of the children I guess lack of awareness, it's a water, it's a lack of hygiene awareness that teeth have gone so bad that if they're not looked after at the quickest earlier, these teeth will affect the rest of the teeth and obviously it will have an impact on their personal hygiene. The other thing is some of the children have baby teeth which are growing at the same time as the adult teeth and it's very much inconvenient for them to bite and chew. These kids have to be taken care of so that the baby teeth can get out of the way so the normal adult teeth can grow properly. Can you please show us the rest of the project? Yes. Okay, to start with, we will take you to the sterilization room. We try and follow the same principles of hygiene and sterilization as we do in Western countries. Although this is a network project, it's not the best environment but we still try and do the best we can so that the equipment that is being used are sterilized to the extent possible. Now here we have got Sister Shabnam Hashem, she is supervising this area. When the equipment and instruments are used by the dentists and dental hygienists, they are only used once, they are only used once per patient and it goes into the bowl where they have to be recycled or rather sterilized. They come to this room, they are brought here, individually they are, you know, blood or any stuff is scrubbed off and then they are soaked in a specially prepared solution which kills all the bacteria for about 20-25 minutes. After which they go into this, what we call a sterilization oven where they go for, to be properly sterilized under strict conditions for about 25-30 minutes after which they are then individually taken, everyone wears gloves to make sure that, you know, we don't contaminate and they go to the other room where the dental hygienists and assistants prepare the trays for the dentists to use which in each equipment or each piece of instrument is handled carefully and put in a tray before the doctors and dentists use them. If the instrument falls on the ground it cannot be used, so we try and make sure that it is separate and you see the area is using it maximum, you know, possible to make sure that, you know, everything is separated as clean as possible. And all these people are volunteers they do, they pay their own way here, fairs, accommodation, lodging, boarding because, you know, they are trying to do as much as they can to help the young orphans and the children of this great country. I know that they are working at least 10 hours a day even more just for free. That's right. Well our day starts early because everything has to be set up and I'll walk you through the process but the day doesn't end and even at the end of the day we feel that we haven't managed to cover as many children as possible but still it's worth looking at this way that a lot of children have been, you know, examined and have been taken care of and we'll talk about the statistics later on. Sister Fatemeh, Benji, the project manager of the Global Kindness Foundation, I want to ask her about the project that started seven years ago, please give us more information. Okay, so to start off with, my husband and I always wanted to give back and one of the things what we wanted to do is we wanted to not only help financially but we wanted to help physically, like actually go with our hands and play with the kids and do something and our forte was dental since my husband's a pediatric dentist. And this project got inspired by us coming for Ziyara and going and visiting one of the refugee camps and that's what brought the beginning of this trip. So we started off with just my husband, myself and two of my boys and our first year we treated 100 grade one students and Alhamdulillah today we have expanded and we are doing three camps together, one in Qadamayn, one in Karbala and one in Najaf and we all set up at an orphan school and we treat as many kids as possible. And how many people are in your group? This year we are a group of 45 people, we are about 11 dentists, we've got about five or six trained assistants who help the dentist and we have others who are being trained and we've got other people which we need their help with. So some people who do sterilizing, some people help with the supplies, some people help with the packing, some people playing with the kids, some people managing the kids, some people making sure which kids we've treated, some people keeping the records of the kids. So we need all variety of kids. Very good. And can you please roughly tell us now that how much is the support of the project financially? Like you said all our volunteers they pay their own way, they pay their own airfare and a ground package which we come up with after discussing looking at our hotels and transportation and then everything else Global Kindness Foundation funds it. So it's a self-funded project and sometimes we do get some donations but that's very little. So it's basically self-funded. So all the equipment is bought by Global Kindness, all the instruments are bought by Global Kindness, all the medication, everything else is bought by Global Kindness. But Alhamdulillah, there is a lot of support from the community. When we go to the community and we outreach to other dentists, they make sure that they go to the supply companies and ask to get some donations. And a lot of times we do get quite a bit of donations as well. So Alhamdulillah, that's how it's funded. How many other projects you have yearly in different countries? So because we are a very small organization and a very family-based, right now this year we have two trips. We try and do at least two trips a year. So this year Alhamdulillah, we are here in Iraq and inshallah in August we are going to go to Kenya to a city called Mombasa and that's where we're going to have our next camp for this year. And then the following year it's still in the planning. So we are planning on inshallah coming back to Iraq and then perhaps maybe going to India as well. Inshallah. Thank you very much for joining. Thank you very much. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Tabeqin l'ilbanat wa Tabeqin l'ilbanin. Malak mawjood l'ilbanat wa Malak min al muallimil l'il awlat. Yujad 15 bas l'inaql al-talamir min kafa t'ahiyah karbala ilal madrasah. Yabda al-dawam al-sa'al thamina haith yasul al-talamir. Tabla d'khulahim ilal madrasah. Aif al-mamar. Yakoon hunaak wajba rasita min al-gheeda wa hi ibaran. Mawz, awkiyak, aw halib, aw asha awkhra. Kamad al-sukkariya. Liyan aghla b'al-talamir. Yakhruj min bayt adoon. Tanaw al-wajbat khutur. Walidahalik naan jahizum. Haidhi al-wajba. Yibda al-taboor al-sa'a al-sa'a min 8 ilal 8 yawrba. Ba'adda liki dikhilun al-sufoof. Khamas deroos ila an yinti al-sa'a al-thani ashera. Qabila al-sa'a al-ashera wal shireen dakiqa. Yitnaw al-wajba raisee ibaran sandawichat. Bar naamich al-sabu'i kame al-adna. Yidafa ila al-fawakih al-leban al-tihun. Anda ba'adda yitayyoon al-sa'a al-thani ashera al-salat al-jama'a. Wa'adda qiyam al-haloo al-maw'id al-salat. Tukam salat al-jama'a lil al-awlad wal al-banin. Lil al-awlad wal al-banat. Ba'ad al-berse al-akhir yujad hassa ilafiyah. Tusamma derse al-shad wa tustaghal al-tathif. Awli ikmal al-wajb al-bayti. Asnan al-talamid wa ra'ayat ummu ma'alajatum. Muddat khamas tiyyam mutadwali al-atabayu al-alijoon yawmin ashera al-halat min al-ra'ayat asnan al-talamid. This room actually is where we have stored the bags where we brought the equipment on that side. All the equipment is brought from, you know, from U.K. or from North America. And some of these, you know, have, it takes time to assemble and, you know, again, you know, to reassemble when we go to the next leg of our trip. So it takes a toll. And a lot of equipment, you know, have been used over and over again. It's not an ideal dental hospital, but we try and make the most of it. We have got, you'll see in the dental rooms, we've got the equipment close to what would be a perfect setting, but obviously not a perfect setting. This is also used as our assembly area for the early morning meetings or for breaks, which we hardly have any. Next, we'll go to the initial area where the children are screened and brought and they're individually examined by the dentists to make sure, to seek what the issues are and to find optimal solutions for them. It could be, you know, just a matter of, you know, one or two fillings or reexamination of the previous work done that is still stable. In other case, it could be a major work. It may require extractions. It may require just a little cosmetic cleaning. But all in all, every children that's screened in by the dentists have been, no, will be looked at and will be treated. Each child has its own chart, which some of them, as I mentioned, have been seen before. So the chart will tell what was the issue before and whether the children are getting better or their teeth are getting worse. And so we try and monitor as much as possible. We not only treat the kids of this school, but sometimes we treat the kids of the neighboring school. Our objective here with the Global Kindness Foundation is to treat the children first. Sometimes we have occasions where there is emergency for, in case of teachers or somebody in the neighbor villages, they come and they get treated. Obviously, the priority is the children. Here's Dr. Dhirani. He just finished on one of the patients we just was just brought. And he will explain in detail the technical aspect, what was done on that patient. This girl was about six years old. She had one, two, three, four, five, about 12 teeth to be repaired. Yeah, and we gave her about six new crowns on her teeth, so they will last longer. And then we put some sealants on the teeth that are little bad so they don't get decayed in the future, so it's more of a prevention thing, right? And she had only two teeth which were really bad, so we removed them. But apparently she was an excellent girl and we did our best to save her as many teeth as we could. Thank you, Shala. Here is our screening area where they have, already children have been screened and only are in the dental room. But each child has a chart and they will see, maybe you can show a sample of a chart. So if you look at this, if we can get a sample of a chart. Thank you, sir. Yeah, it's a blank chart. So each child has its own stats recorded for the previous visit and the next visit. Or if they have been seen before, then you will see the comparison between previous and current visits. It's amazing that most of the doctors here cannot understand Arabic and tell it their best to make relation with the kids and with the parents. That's very true. We have been very fortunate that we have about three or four volunteers. Two of them are dentists from Iraq who have not only our dentists, but also Arab speaking. One also is from Canada. You will meet him later on. He's originally from Iraq and he's also volunteering his time and obviously it helps. Plus we've got a couple of other Arabic speaking volunteers who help in the translation. Important thing is to get the children to relax and advise them or inform them what's the purpose of the visit and what is being done so they are not agitated. And things are working out, Alhamdulillah, very well so far. Here we are in the dental room two where you will see about four dentists working on the children. This is a normal classroom which has now been used temporarily. And this is not a typical dental chair, but it's a second best alternative where each child is taken care of. Now with the dentists, normally there's one or two assistants depending on the severity of the case. Yeah, this doctor is from Tanzania. There's another doctor. He's from Canada, the dentist I should say. He's from Canada. Dr. Aslan is from Canada and he's from UK. I see there's a lot of people working to there. Now each dentist have access to what they call a toolbox with all the equipment they kept. These are the sterilized instruments are. They bring everything here from overseas including those portable units for extraction or water. And sometimes equipment don't work so they need to be fixed overnight. But all in all, you know. Do you have a technician to fix it? No, I think it's we've got a couple of people who know how to fix these things. But we don't have formal technician. This is the second room. You'll see again is a mech work room. There's again four dental chairs or dental beds. Again, it's fully equipped with dentists, assistants number one, number two. And they're all trying to work on the children. Now over there, you will see that one of the patients have just been worked on. So now they're doing the sterilization and the sterilization is very important because you don't want to create more issues, health issues. So everything is wiped, everything is cleaned and new equipment is brought in here. We put the equipment that's being used that goes back to the sterilization room. Now here's a lady that's a young girl that's being worked on by one of the dentists. Here's another doctor, you know, Jaffer. He's working on a young patient. Yeah, Dr. Jaffer from Canada. Dr. Ola is from UK. And he's from UK and he's from Dr. Nooran is from New York, New Jersey. So we got participants from various continents, all meaning to give back to Isabella, their time and effort. Global Kindness Foundation, by the way, does about two or three trips a year. Iraq for sure, they do it once around this time, March, April, but they also been to other countries too, like Cambodia or Peru and this year, they're planning to go to Kenya in August. So you don't dedicate your services to Muslims? No, it's open to all, it's for children. It's for children, not necessarily orphans but children who do not have access to the kind of services. And but obviously it's organized and organized and sometimes takes more than a year to get, to find out where the needs are. It's a lot of work and expenses to get to the location. So we want to make sure they know it's everybody benefits with this. The daily routine. So the children are screened in their classes and then whoever needs some work to be done, they'll be brought down in a few groups. And at the front they get more details put in, historical details, and then they get called in. Now once that work is done in the dental offices or rooms, if I may put it, and the dentist will escort the child back outside where they will be handed back to the teacher or in some cases the parents. Here's our recovery room, supply room. Respected viewers, we are now with Dr Ali Akbar. He will tell us what's he doing here. As-salamu alaikum. Wa alaikum as-salam. We are here with Global Kindness Foundation trying to help the orphans in Iraq. This is our second visit, second time in Karbala. We have been to Kazamiya before, Kazamin from before, for four days. There we did some treatment for the patients and orphans. Now we are here. Tomorrow we are going to Najaf. We're gonna see and treat patients there. And we have all orphans and all children. And we see approximately we are about 10 dentists together and we try to see as many as we can and try to do as much as we can. One of the brothers told me about the stats over the wall. Can you give us explanation about it? Yes, what we do is stats is after a dentist works on the patient. And outside we have statistics that we put the numbers, how many patients we saw, how many teeth we treated, what kind of work we did, like fillings, sealants, or endos, or stainless steel crowns or whatever. So we just put a state so that we know how many people, how many teeth we treated and how many children we treated. You are coming to Karbala. I don't know how many times a year, but you dedicate most of your time here in serving children. What's the reason behind it? We just see that the kids here, they need the work, they're neglected, they need a lot of work to be done. And I see that it's a great thing that we are doing. It's helping them a lot. I would say that this is a great cause that we are trying to help. We are doing it voluntarily on our own. And we would like that we get a lot of cooperation from the establishment, the ministries, and other things that would help us a lot. On this table, you'll see all the sterilized equipment, all sorted out, that is picked up by the dental assistants to prepare their trays for the dentists. When the children have had their work done, when they're ready to leave, they come here, they get their oral hygiene supplies, their toothbrush and toothpaste. And they also get a gift for a job well done. Can you show us what is inside the package? Okay, we'll show you. Siddhika, can you give one bag? We got them in different age groups. So one of these bags will have a toothpaste and a toothbrush, right? Yeah, what age group would that be? Yeah, okay, so this is, yeah, this for a small child. Okay, so they get one of these. Most of these stuff have been donated by suppliers. Some of them have been bought by volunteers or people who have given money for benefit of children. And then for gifts, we have these toys, these ones for some of the children. You provide every single patient with a gift? Yeah, everyone gets one of the gifts, a choice of one gift and obviously the oral hygiene bag, which they have been given instructions how to use and how to make sure that the brush and teeth every day to prevent more decays or more problems later on in their lives. Now here on this side, you see one of the young patients who has been sedated is recovering. And we got Dr. Haider there. He's an anesthesiologist from Toronto who monitors closely the health stats for the child. This child obviously is now getting ready. So we don't let the child leave this room until they are stable enough. We monitor the heart beats and blood pressures to make sure the sedation has worn off before they're allowed to go and they are stable and able to walk on their own. And obviously we advise the child's guardian, parent or the teacher as to when they'll be able to take some soda and drinks or start eating normal food. Normally how long does it take to get patients enough? Up and running. It all depends on the kind of work that has been done. In some cases the children's teeth have been so bad that they had two or three extractions and with some sedation, more sedation given, it takes about, you know, maximum of two hours. Some people, some child only needs 30 minutes and they're fully recovered. Now sedation is normally given when they have, he's another young patient, you know? Sometimes it's just, they're scared but it's not the pain itself. Yeah, so, because they have not been to identities for a few years, so that's what's fighting for them. We try and calm them down, okay? But the work has been done. I can see that the team deal with the children very kindly, like parents. Yes, now we try, you know, we try and address issues as if they were our children and of course they are our children. But more important, we want to make sure that they don't stay with this traumatic experience because they have to be able to be comfortable visiting dentists in the future. You'll see a little bit of chaos in this room because we are trying to pack today. Today we're only working half day. We have been here full three days. This is our half day and this afternoon we'll be packing everything. Everything we see here will be packed. We bring everything, you know, batteries, gloves, you know, all the gifts, instruments, all the major equipment. Everything has to be packed properly so that they can be transported properly. And when you go to the next station, Najaf, they'll be reassembled and rooms will be set up for treating the children in Najaf.