Madiyarasi Vengidasan (Mady) is a dentist working in the public sector with Malaysia’s Ministry of Health. Mady also is the founder of Dental Relief Malaysia, an organization that provides free dental services to refugee, marginalized, underserved, and undocumented communities, and the co-Founder of Little Happiness Project, a social enterprise that sells bamboo toothbrushes to raise funds for her outreach missions.

Her passion is to provide oral health services to underserved populations, and she enjoys delivering services in a mobile setting and creating a strong connection between health professionals and community residents. 

Mady was twice selected for Mycorps Missions, a humanitarian initiative of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and has served on missions in Cambodia and Lebanon.

During a water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH) mission in Cambodia, she noticed the oral healthcare among villagers was neglected. That inspired her to gather a group of young dentists to conduct small-scale service missions targeting local communities in Malaysia.

Since then, she has conducted 12 outreach missions locally and internationally. In the future, she hopes to open a full-fledged charity dental clinic that will provide accessible, high-quality treatment at a subsidized rate to refugees, low-skilled migrant workers, and other underserved communities.