Call for volunteers.

The Chiapas Project (http://www.chiapasproject.org) is a volunteer group that travels twice each year to rural Chiapas, Mexico, to provide free medical and dental care to the indigenous Zoque people of the region, it is a nonsectarian, New Jersey nonprofit corporation and reports that it has received IRS designation as a tax-exempt publicly funded foundation.

The group began three years ago as one family's effort to be of service and has grown into trips of 30+ practitioners. Volunteer dentists on its last trip were from New Jersey, Virginia, Hawaii, and London, U.K. On the dental side, it started doing only extractions, but now has set up a six-chair clinic that performs extractions and restorations, and applies sealant. Chiapas says that it is now ready to begin application of fluoride varnishes in the main town it serves as well as in the surrounding pueblos. They wish to teach local people how to apply the varnishes.

The program is in need of more trained volunteers for its August 2004 trip and asks that the ADAA help spread the word of its work to members. If you feel that you might be interested in helping these people, please contact Chiapas president David Brody, DMD, at The Chiapas Project, Inc., 179 High St., Newton, NJ 07860, e-mail [e-mail] or call 973-383 5070.