The founders
Who are We?
The foundation is the brain-child of Gabriella Schmidt-Corsitto, a qualified dental hygienist from Switzerland.
Gabriella Schmidt-Corsitto brings her many years of experience from her work in Africa to the MKF, where she set up a mobile dental clinic for the Albert Schweizer Hospital and has already treated hundreds of children in remote regions of West Africa.
In 2014, shortly after moving to Mongolia, we received a request from the Faculty of Dentistry at the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences for support in training local dental hygienists and dentists in oral health. It turned out that the oral health of Mongolian children from disadvantaged backgrounds was catastrophically poor.
In 2015, the Misheel Kids Foundation was therefore founded and, with a team of Mongolian dentists, the first oral health lessons were held in orphanages and day-care centers in Ulaanbaatar. With the first donations in 2016, we were then able to provide orphans with free dental treatment. Since then, we have grown steadily and now look after over nine orphanages and children’s daycare centers around Ulaanbaatar. In addition to free treatment, we carry out annual dental check-ups and train children, teachers, caregivers and parents in oral hygiene and healthy eating.
In 2018, we traveled to the countryside for the first time and provided children with free dental care using mobile treatment units. Since then, we have visited remote villages in Mongolia twice a year with an entire team and several vehicles with dental equipment. On these missions, we treat thousands of children who would otherwise have no access to dental care.
In 2022, due to high demand, we also carried out mobile missions in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar for the first time.
An Oral Health Center is being set up in the middle of the Ger District. There we will not only provide free dental treatment for disadvantaged children, but also focus on oral health teaching and education.
A large Mongolian team with diverse expertise in the field of dentistry together with our board members from Mongolia, Switzerland and Germany as well as numerous volunteers make our commitment possible.