The Alpha Omega International Dental Society runs many philanthropic activities around the world at the same time. These efforts are coordinated by the International Alliance of Alpha Omega Charitable Organizations. Giving back and supporting communities in need are at the heart of the fraternity — and as our membership grows, so do our reach and our ability to achieve these goals.
The Alliance was founded in 2011 and today includes the Alpha Omega foundations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Israel. Chapters in countries without a formal foundation — such as France — also take part and contribute.
A history of giving
- Rehabilitating refugee dentists and technicians, and providing dental care to refugees from Europe after World War II.
- Sending dental materials and supplies to refugees in Europe and in the detention camps on Cyprus.
- A welfare fund for soldiers returning from the war.
- A loan programme for dental students.
- Donating mobile dental clinics to the US and Canadian armed forces.
Institutions in Israel supported by Alpha Omega
- “Mashalash”, Jerusalem — founded in 1976 by Prof. Aryeh Steier, then President of the Jerusalem chapter, together with Mrs Fanny Aliash, to provide dental care to people in need in members’ private clinics. Holocaust survivors were also treated in the student clinics in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and a Tel Aviv project for Holocaust survivors in need was commended by Mayor Ron Huldai.
- DVI – Dental Volunteers for Israel — a clinic treating children from disadvantaged families in Jerusalem.
- Institutions for people with disabilities — Luba Salom, Yemin Orde Youth Village, Beit Issie Shapiro, ALEH Negev, Yad LaKashish, the Center for the Blind in Herzliya, Yad Sarah and many others.
- The oral and maxillofacial clinic at Rambam Hospital, treating those wounded in Israel’s wars.
- The kibbutz dental programme, the Miftanim programme and the free dental clinic in Beit She’an.
- The IDF Dental Corps.