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ESTETICA E80 Rise above the rest with KaVo. • Outstanding ergonomics and attractive, highly functional designs. • Innovation at its best. • State of the art technology reliability and functionality at amazingly low prices. From as little as £286* per month excl VAT KaVo Dental Limited · Raans Road, Amersham, Bucks HP6 6JL Tel. 01494 733000 · Fax 01494 431168 · mail: sales@kavo.com · www.kavo.com Contact your local KaVo or Gendex supplier for more details! *Finance is subject to status and for business purposes only. KaVo – Dental Excellence April 19-25, 20108 Feature United Kingdom Edition I t’s one week to go before the trip, and I’m getting in a right flap about everything! What to pack, what not to pack, remembering any of the Swahili phrases which might come in handy, sourcing my malaria tab- lets... you name it, I’m flapping about it! Of course, all of this flapping is covering up my anxiety about the trip. Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely excited, but you can’t help worrying about whether or not you’re up to the task or if you’ll cope in the heat. However, I know that when we get out there all the worrying will be in vain as I know that we will be a very motivated and committed team and will throw ourselves into the experience. Speaking of committed, or needing to be, four intrepid fund- raisers stepped out very early into the Kent countryside to complete a marathon hike around Bewl Water, the perimeter of which is 17miles. Having endured all the ‘jokes’ about walking around Bluewater, which for those not living in the Southeast is a shop- ping complex (and believe me by the end of it I was wishing it was Bluewater!!) it was time for Schulke UK’s Andrew Thurston, Anne Harris, Jacqui Entwistle and myself to follow the pictur- esque Round Bewl Water walk. This name is a bit of a misnomer, as for long stretches of the walk we couldn’t even see the water! However, it was a beautiful place to trek for miles, we were ex- tremely lucky with the weather as it was a lovely sunny Spring day with just enough breeze to stop us from overheating and we were suitably exhausted at the finish to regret any plans more energetic than sitting in a warm bath that we had made for the rest of the weekend! A big congratulations to the team for completing the walk and keeping their enthusiasm and spirits up, even in the face of Andrew’s terrible jokes (it’ll be a long two weeks in Tanzania if that was his best material...); even bigger congrats to Jacqui who did the majority of the walk with an extremely painful blister on her foot and who by the end was barely able to hobble. Another fundraising effort from a member of the team go- ing to Bukumbi was led recently by Henry Schein Minerva’s Len Camporeale, who with some members of the HSM team (Louie (Marketing) and Wayne (Warehouse)) camped in the car park of the company’s UK head office and asked the TSMs to do- nate a day or a week’s commut- ing expense to the project. From all accounts, it was more com- fortable than some of the hotels the team had stayed in! To support these fundraising efforts, go to www.justgiving. com/bukumbibound and do- nate. This easy way of helping us raise money for this cause goes straight to the charity, and al- lows you to add Gift Aid to your donation if you are eligible so the taxman has to help us too! DT Bukumbi Bound With the trip to Tanzania only days away, Dental Tribune details recent fundraising efforts and a growing sense of panic! ‘This easy way of helping us raise money for this worthy cause goes straight to the charity, and allows you to add Gift Aid to your donation’

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