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Service Opportunities

Salt Lake City, Utah

The Christmas Box House International announces dates for 2004 humanitarian expeditions to Peru. Humanitarian expeditions are eleven to twelve day trips to the jungles and Andes of Peru where participants contribute their time and resources to benefit the lives of poor children and communities. Projects are selected in the areas of health and hygiene, literacy and education, and food and water. Previous expeditions have included construction of kitchens, greenhouses, and bathrooms for grade schools as well as individual medical attention.

The Christmas Box House International is a tax-exempt organization that builds one-stop assessment centers for abused and neglected children through age twelve. The children who go to these shelters receive mental, emotional, and physical care in a home-like loving environment. In 2004, The Christmas Box House International will provide assistance at a shelter in Cusco, Peru for orphaned, homeless boys. It is estimated there are at least 300 homeless boys roaming the streets of Cusco between the ages of 7 and 15. The dates of planned expeditions for 2004 are: June 9-20, June 30-July 12, July 14-25, July 28-August 8, and August 11-22.

The public is invited to participate in expeditions. Groups are limited to 35, and the cost is $1950 per person (includes all airfare, hotels, meals, and local travel). In most cases, the cost of this trip should be deductible for federal tax purposes. However, each participant should contact his/her own tax advisor to confirm that treatment.

Visit our websites for more information: http://www.makisapa.com or http://www.thechristmasboxhouse.org. Makisapa Amazon Adventures, Inc. is a privately held travel agency in Salt Lake City that owns and operates an eco-tourism resort in the jungle east of Cusco, Peru.

Possible Jobs to Help in the Academy

We need a person to:

• arrange to obtain Internet journals for missionaries and the dental schools where they teach
• locate lecturers (GP and specialist) to teach a week at the dental schools
• be a team captain to head a service group of dentists to go and do dental work on native missionaries at the different Mission Training Centers
• obtain PowerPoint presentations for dental service missionaries (to facilitate their teaching in dental schools)
• be a liaison to each of the humanitarian groups listed as service opportunities (e.g., one to CHOICE, AYUDA, Engage Now, etc.)
• head a group of dentists to treat the poor for a week with the missionaries
• be an assistant editor over service project reporting under newsletter editor and web page coordinator
• identify and recruit LDS dental specialists who would be willing to travel to a foreign country for a week and give lectures, teach techniques involving their specialty, give training seminars for the LDS dentists (foreign chapters of our Academy) and other seminars for them and their peers
• locate LDS dental instructors (associated with academics), lecturers, clinicians who give seminars, and dental specialists who give seminars in their field of expertise (PLEASE HELP by giving us their name and any way that they can be contacted.)
• go to a foreign country and lecture on and share an area of interest and/or expertise in
  1. a dental school setting
  2. a foreign chapter of our LDS Academy of Dentists and possibly their peers in dentistry.
• could help on our Web page or teaching power point skills to newly called dental missionaries before they go to teach in schools
• help the Academy function better or offer more service, etc.
• serve in any way on our Advisory or Executive Committees
  

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