We recruit and train health workers and volunteers from the community, who provide vision screening, referral, health assessments and health education. Across South Asia and Africa, these local eye health champions also reached nearly 800,000 people with education sessions about key health issues, like child and maternal health. After Sonam’s mother received sight-restoring cataract surgery… Continue reading Meet our people: Community health workers and volunteers
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Meet our people: Joana Annobil
If you ask Joana Annobil what it’s like to pursue a degree in ophthalmic nursing, her answer is simple. “It’s a dream come true,” she smiles. Growing up, Joana remembers her grandmother going blind but not seeking treatment because blindness was believed to be caused by spirits. “If they knew about eye services, they wouldn’t… Continue reading Meet our people: Joana Annobil
Meet our people: Bitul Hazarika
It’s our team’s passion for working in the field and caring for patients that allowed us to impact more lives in 2021. “I have seen people who never expected to see again, because eye care services were far out of reach, not affordable and not accessible. They waited for their death,” explains Bitul Hazarika, a… Continue reading Meet our people: Bitul Hazarika
Meet our people: Samson Keitany
Samson Keitany is Head of the Eye Department at Huruma Eye Unit, our partner in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. “2021 was a blessed year for us. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, our work in serving the community continued from the support we received from Operation Eyesight,” Samson says. “We started the year with school screening that… Continue reading Meet our people: Samson Keitany
