Welcome to Grey Mist Lifting!
We named our blog Grey Mist Lifting because this expression – or words like it – are commonly heard in the clinics we support. When the bandages come off after cataract surgery, patients often describe what they are experiencing. For example; “Yesterday, all I could see was a grey mist. Today, the mist has lifted. I can see again.”
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Although Operation Eyesight is based in Canada, we have donors all over the world who support our work. I recently returned from Sydney, Australia where Operation Eyesight maintains a fundraising office. The purpose of the trip was to meet and work with Operation Eyesight Australia’s (OEA) board of directors and our staff member, outlining global… Continue Reading Operation Eyesight’s cause in Oz
I recently spent three days in the Solwezi region of Zambia’s North-Western province (that’s its name, like Alberta), in the very pleasant company of Operation Eyesight ophthalmologist Dr. Edith Pola. On March 10, I accompanied Edith and her team to an eye screening clinic at Meheba Refugee Camp, one of the longest-standing refugee camps in… Continue Reading Rural Zambia presents challenges for eye health care
World Water Day, earlier this week on March 22, tells us not to take water for granted. About five years ago Operation Eyesight realized that treatment and surgery alone were not going to win the battle to eliminate unnecessary blindness. Indeed the evidence was that a good deal of blindness could be prevented if we were… Continue Reading What’s the big deal about water?
Lynda is currently on a whirlwind tour of Operation Eyesight’s program partners in each of the countries where we work. There are blossoms on the almond trees in Himanchal Pradesh and the comments circulating in this Himalayan state, as the temperatures reach above 20 C, are “winter is over and summer is coming.” Interesting how… Continue Reading Six weeks, six countries
Lynne has been traveling throughout Africa since mid-February visiting the nations of Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and Zambia. A few musings about my month spent in four African countries: Traffic: Compared to North America, the general African public has a serene obliviousness to traffic. Vehicles, not pedestrians, have right of way. Even women carrying babies aren’t… Continue Reading Goats, potholes, signage and bouquets
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