Melville, N.Y.-based Henry Schein joined Downers Grove, Ill.-based Takara Belmont in donating more than $50,000 in dental equipment to the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Israel.
Here's what you should know.
1. The companies donated a dental chair and an X-ray machine to the village's on-site clinic.
2. The community serves as a safe haven for 440 at-risk and immigration youth from around the world. It first operated as a homeless refuge for children displaced after the Holocaust.
3. Clinic Director Shmuli Bling said "This in-kind gift of new dental equipment will greatly benefit the oral needs of our youth. In addition, the partnership between the … two companies is an important example to our children of how people from different cultures and different backgrounds join together to help others. We are grateful to everyone involved in making this generous contribution to the health and well-being of the youth at Yemin Orde."