The Olmalaika Trust Dental Clinic in Kenya provides free dental care to anyone that needs it. It’s part of a wider trust focusing on keeping young girls safe who have endured trauma in their lives.
The fantastic dental care that they provide relies solely on dentists from Kenya and across the world giving their time and expertise. This enables them to provide a wide range of dental treatments to those who need it, reaching people in local villages and even the most remote areas.
In March 2026 Oakwood Dental Practice created a partnership with the trust as Dr Barbie and Head Nurse Pouya travelled to Kenya to volunteer in their capacity of oral surgeon and dental nurse.
On her experience of volunteering at the trust, Dr Barbie explains:
“The Olmalaika Trust is run by two fantastic individuals, Kim and Kamunge, who provide a safe and loving home for orphaned or abandoned Masai children, with the adjacent dental clinic providing free dental care to the local Masai community.
The clinic and orphanage are run purely by donations of cash and equipment, and by UK dentists who volunteer their time and expertise to help provide much needed dental care. However there are large swathes of time where the clinic is unable to run, and therefore the community cannot receive much needed and often emergency dental care – often living with severe dental pain for prolonged periods of time. The dental need is very real!
In addition to the health care provision, the Trust not only homes and feeds the orphaned children of any age, but provides and funds continuing education right the way up to university entrance, for those children who are not fortunate enough to be adopted along the way. It is a wonderful, caring and nurturing environment for very young children to create a future for themselves from a very poor start in life.
Oakwood Dental Practice is now a firm partner with the Olmalaika Trust and will make it our mission to provide clinicians, material, equipment and donations on an annual basis for as long as we can because it is clear that even for a short period of time we can make a difference in a part of the world that has nothing.”