Orlando, Fla. — One-thousand children in central Orlando will enjoy nutritious food this weekend thanks to SmileCon.
The ADA Foundation Give Kids A Smile Pack & Give Back Event, held inside Dental Central at the Orange County Convention Center, invited SmileCon attendees to help assemble snack packs for 1,000 schoolchildren who eat federally assisted school meals during the week but often go hungry on the weekends.
“It’s important for the ADA to give back as we celebrate SmileCon 2023,” said ADA President George R. Shepley, D.D.S., before he rolled up his sleeves to assemble several snack packs himself. “I can’t think of any better way than to help provide nutritious food combined with oral health products to children who don’t have regular access to these items.”
The ADA Foundation, Henry Schein Cares, Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures, and the Dental Trade Alliance Foundation worked with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida in the food and oral health care philanthropic community event.