Ongata Naado – a village transformed (Part 1 of 2)

| By Pat Ferguson, former President and CEO
Categories: Clean Water, Kenya
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Water is a powerful force. In rivers, it pushes huge generator turbines. In the ocean, it covers most of the earth. From the ground, it changes people’s lives in ways I never would have imagined unless I had seen it with my own eyes. In Kenya, Operation Eyesight has been fighting the terrible trachoma infection… Continue Reading Ongata Naado – a village transformed (Part 1 of 2)

A Poetic Tribute

| By Lynne Dulaney, Former Director of Communications
Categories: Communities, Kenya, Our Work
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Earlier this year, I visited Kenya’s Narok District, a dry, dusty region where the sunlight is blinding, the Maasai population is sparse and water is scarce. Trachoma, an excruciatingly painful disease and one of the world’s leading causes of unnecessary blindness, used to be widespread in this area. Trachoma is caused by bacterial infection and… Continue Reading A Poetic Tribute