27th May 2024
Come and visit us at stand B04 at Braehead on Friday 31st May or Saturday 1st june.
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27th Sep 2022
Smileawi are now supporting 21 dental therapy students!! A huge problem in the College of Health Sciences and Malawi generally is that although students qualify for college entrance they cannot afford to pay their fees, accomodation and upkeep resulting in them dropping out of their courses....
10th Jun 2022
Our long awaited Smileawi Ceilidh will now be held on October 1st when we hope lots of people will be able to attend the fun filled evening where we can catch up with friends, dance to the with Ali of Inverhooley ceilidh band and friends, have a drink at the well stocked but reasonably priced bar...
20th Apr 2022
At last we are allowed to have another ceilidh a chance to catch up with friends old and new, burn some calories while dancing to the fabulous Inverhooley ceilidh band, buy your friends a drink at the well stocked but reasonably priced bar, win a raffle prize and help us raise some well needed...
6th Apr 2022
Smileawi as of now has 6 team members planning to walk the GlasgowKiltwalk 2022. We will be walking from Glasgow Green to Balloch with the hope of raising much needed funds. The money raised will help pay to support our 12 Smileawi dental therapy students. Please donate if you possibly can. Thank...
2nd Jan 2022
Everyone at Smileawi both here and Malawi would like to wish all our supporters a happy and healthy 2022, for an update of our progress in 2021 please follow the link to our blog here.2022 starts with our country in the grip of the Omicron variant and as a result we enter another New Year...
9th Apr 2021
We are delighted to announce the launch on 31/3/2021 of our Scottish government funded collaborative project to provide an online education programme for our dental colleagues in Malawi. Thanks to our partners Bridge2Aid, the Dental Association of Malawi, the Maldent project, Smile North,...
28th Feb 2021
Great news. Scotty completed his journey to Malawi and so far has raised £1104! We will be sending this money to our colleagues in Malawi to organise the manufacture and distribution of masks to those in most need. A huge thanks to everyone who donated to this cause. Read Scotty’s story...
21st Feb 2021
To help raise funds for our friends and colleagues in Malawi to manufacture and purchase PPE to help fight aganst the spread of the corona virus our mascot Scotty is virtually travelling to Malawi in a 2CV, follow his adventures on our blog and please donate if you can. If you want to donate...
29th Jan 2021
Smileawi were delighted to receive a Scottish Government grant which is being used to improve and update Malawian dental therapists knowledge and skills in teaching others to deliver oral health messages to rural communities. We are working in partnership with the Dental Association of Malawi,...
18th Dec 2020
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17th Dec 2020
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2020 has been a difficult year for fundraising so we were thrilled and delighted that Glasgow Dental School’s Big Smile Big Band wanted to help us to raise funds and awareness for Smileawi this Christmas. This highly talented group of dental professionals are going to fill our hearts with...
22nd Oct 2020
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1st May 2020
Wonderful.org is not accepting any donations at present and may have to close, if you wish to donate to our charity please contact us at info@smileawi.com
We are delighted to have been given a Corra foundation grant to help our colleagues in Malawi during this COVID 19 crisis. The money has already been sent to our SmileNorth dental colleagues for them to buy PPE and hand washing supplies to help them and their patients stay safe and well.We are...
It is with heavy hearts that we have decided that all planned trips to Malawi for Smileawi in 2020 have had to be cancelled. We had recruited two full teams of self funded volunteers who we hope will be able to come with us in 2021.
19th Jan 2020
https://wonderful.org/appeal/mobiledentalclinicfundraiser-fe197da1We are delighted and excited to have been given a mobile dental clinic for use in Malawi by NHS Highland . This is a lorry with a self sufficient functioning dental clinic with a small waiting room. The lorry will be of invaluable...
We are delighted that The Rotary Club have come on board to help us raise funds to send the mobile dental van to Malawi.On February 15th at Dunoon Burgh hall with the wonderful Inverhooley Ceilidh band tickets are £15 for adults and £10 for under 18s available at The Hollies Dental...
On Friday 31st January we will be holding an informaton night at the Glasgow Dental Hosital Postgraduate Centre from 6pm. Anyone at all interested in finding out how to volunteer and what it all involves please come along. The evening we will involve a short presentation followed by a question and...
4th Apr 2019
For Team registration and Indemnity waiver forms please download from links below and return to Alan Stewart at brackleystewarts@aol.com...
28th Mar 2019
Announcing a not to be missed event to help raise funds for smileawi Spanners taking place at Dunoon Stadium on Saturday 1st June 2019.Registration will begin at 10am and entered vehicles will be carefully checked over by event mechanics to ensure the safety of the spectators, drivers and events...
24th Feb 2019
After the success of Alan Stewart’s visit to Malawi last year we are delighted to announce the launch of a new branch of the Smileawi charity, Smileawi Spanners.It is without a doubt that lives have already been saved by Alan’s efforts in September 2018 and the more vehicles he and his...
13th Oct 2018
2 teams totalling 14 volunteers have returned safely after nearly 5 weeks in Malawi. In the hot and dusty conditions with 9 dentists and 4 dental nurses we saw 1765 patients in 15 different locations around Northern Malawi and extracted around 3000 painful teeth, making many people pain free and...
1st Sep 2018
A huge thank you to all at Arnold Clark Toyota Linwood and especially Peter Williamson who have donated all the spare parts we can carry and money to purchase more when we get to Malawi to allow Alan Stewart to transform the ambulances and hospital vehicles in Embangweni and Livingstonia hospitals....
30th Jul 2018
Due to popular demand tickets are already on sale for our annual ceilidh in Uig hall on 10th November 2018
26th Jul 2018
Saturday 4th August at Stewart’s car hire in Jesse place Dunoon we will be holding a charity car wash to raise funds to buy parts for the vehicles that volunteer Alan Stewart has been asked to fix when he visits Malawi with Smileawi in September. Alan has a huge task ahead of him but is meeting...
21st May 2018
Thanks to Alba Aid and to the hard work of David Small of Dunoon Smileawi now has a new trailer that will be used to transport all their equipment from clinic to clinic within Malawi this will save both time and energy for the volunteers and should mean that more patients will be seen and more pain...
The kids of Ekweiweni village were delighted to show off their new uniforms delivered safely by the Smileawi container, it was quite amazing to see such familiar uniforms so far from home. Thanks to all the pupils of Kirn primary school for donating their uniforms and to all the Mums who worked so...
After a 2 week trip to Malawi, with the help of dental engineer Gerry Dolan and helper Trevor Hayes 8 dental chairs have been successfully fitted in 5 different locations around Northern Malawi and with the distribution of numerous dental tools the working conditions of the dental therapists in...
9th Feb 2018
A container full of dental equipment and tools is now on its way to Malawi, the container was loaded by a group of volunteers who gave up their time and energy to help load among other things 8 dental chairs, numerous boxes of dental tools, materials toothbrushes,toothpaste,school uniforms, school...
13th Oct 2017
Annual ceilidh at Uig Hall on Saturday 4th November featuring Canned Haggis, Rory Cameron and guest singer Saoirsa May and honoured guest Dr Lyn Dowds of Livingstonia hospital dont miss a fun night of dancing and catching up with friends. Hope to see you there.Click here to buy tickets
Two teams consisting of a total of 15 self-funding volunteers, 10 dentists, 1 dental therapist, 3 dental nurses and 1 lawyer acting as a dental nurse have returned safely home after a very successful trip to Malawi. They treated more than 1700 patients and removed nearly 3000 teeth, they gave out...
5th Jun 2017
Nigel and Vicky have returned safely home after a worthwhile visit to Malawi. During their 2 week visit they visited 14 different sites including the College of Health Sciences in Lilongwe where dental therapists are trained. They gathered useful information about all the therapists and their work...
9th May 2017
Plans are now full steam ahead for our next trip and hopefully exciting progress for Smileawi. On Thursday Nigel and Vicky along with our 7th Dentaid chair will fly to Malawi and for the next 2 weeks travel around the North visiting the dental therapists we are trying to support. Our aim and our...
3rd Apr 2017
Thank you to everyone who took part in our hugely successfull quiz night. Special mention to Neil Lea, Lorn Campbell, Kenny Love, Eva Francesci and all at Anselmos
13th Feb 2017
Great news! Our event is a sellout so unfortunately if you haven’t got a ticket and were hoping to join us you’ll have to wait until next year. Looking forward to a great night on 25th with everyone who is lucky enough to have a ticket.
6th Feb 2017
Graeme will attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro the highest peak in Africa and is raising funds for Smileawi. Please click on this news item and follow the link to our BTDonate page to sponsor him. Thank you Graeme for thinking of us.
7th Jan 2017
We are holding an information night at Glasgow Dental hospital postgraduate centre for any one interested in joining us in Malawi this September. Come along at 18.30 when we will show a short presentation followed by a question and answer session and then anyone wanting to join us for a bite to eat...
13th Dec 2016
Thanks to Sam, Ken and everyone at Samteq for creating our beautiful new website.
10th Oct 2016
After a very successful trip Nigel, Vicky, Rebecca, Hannah, Linda, Bushra and Francesca are returning home today. Everyone is exhausted and looking forward to our home comforts and to continue Smileawi’s work.
25th Sep 2016
Smileawi Team 2, Bushra, Francesca, Hannah, Linda and Rebecca arrive in Lilongwe to relief Team 1. Alan, Theresa and Caroline leave Malawi tomorrow 26th September after a hard working but rewarding fortnight. We hope they have benefited from the experience and will join us again someday.
12th Sep 2016
Smileawi Team 1, Nigel, Vicky, Alan, Theresa and Caroline leave Glasgow airport today for their long journey to Malawi and the start of the 2016 adventure.
5th Sep 2016
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14722913.display/Read Caroline Coghlan’s story in todays Evening Times. We are looking forward to this lovely ’Govan Granny’ joining us this September in Malawi.
21st Aug 2016
Nigel and Vicky headed to Dundee this weekend to drop donated dental x-ray equipment at the Raven Trust depot. Thanks to all donors and to Caroline Stuart and Courtney for help with the loading and to Stewart’s Garage for the use of their van.
5th Aug 2016
http://sdmag.co.uk/2016/08/02/hearts-and-smiles/Smileawi are featured in this months Scottish Dental Magazine, follow the link below to read the article in full. Thanks Bruce Oxley.
23rd Jul 2016
We had another well attended fun ceilidh with Canned Haggis this weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped make it such a success, see you next year.
11th Jun 2016
This weekend our team of 14 walkers plus 2 drivers climbed Ben Lomond, Ben Lawers and Ben Nevis in 22 hours 55 minutes and 59 seconds.We have raised £3460.08 for Smileawi. Thank you to everyone who sponsored us and to all our amazing team. we hope your legs recover quickly.
6th Jun 2016
Good luck to Caroline Coghlan and her team from Coia and Associates Family Dental Care who are running the Women’s 10k in Glasgow for Smileawi. Caroline is planning to join us in Malawi this September.
13th Apr 2016
We are very excited here because Smileawi has been announced as the nominated charity for this years awards dinner.
31st Mar 2016
Smileawi is now officially a charity. Our charity number is SC046434. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at the Raven Trust for their help. We look forward to working alongside them for many years to come.
