Thank YOU for all that you do!

| By Brian Foster, Former Executive Director
Categories: Blog, Communities, Donors, Eye Surgery, Eyeglasses, Ghana, Hospitals, India, Kenya, Nepal, Our Work, Prevention, Zambia
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Thank you!
Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up this weekend, and we wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of everything your incredible support has made possible, and more importantly, to THANK YOU for all that you do! Thanks to you… Thirteen-year-old Tom (and thousands of children, women and men) in the Lake Kariba area, Zambia, received… Continue Reading Thank YOU for all that you do!

A passion for the people

| By Lynne Dulaney, Former Director of Communications
Categories: Blog, Communities, Community Health Worker, India, Our Work
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Sushila lives with her husband and two children in Dhaki village, in India. She first became interested in our Hospital-Based Community Eye Health Program back in 2014, when she met a community health worker named Sonam who’d been trained by Operation Eyesight. When Sushila saw the life-changing work Sonam was doing, she was fascinated and… Continue Reading A passion for the people

All for one, and one for all!

| By Kashinath Bhoosnurmath, Global Director, Programmes
Categories: Blog, Eye Surgery, Hospitals, India, Our Work
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Siroti is a 60-year-old woman who lives in a village in West Bengal, India. She lives with her husband and their extended family. She works as a daily wage worker in a nearby tea garden, where her husband is a daily wage labourer and her son works as a carpenter. Together as a family they… Continue Reading All for one, and one for all!

Clearing the clouds in his eyes

| By Lynne Dulaney, Former Director of Communications
Categories: Blog, Eye Surgery, India, Our Work
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Ram can see
Ram is a 65-year-old farmer from a very remote village called Fathua in India. He provides for his daughter and three sons with his farming. Life for Ram’s family wasn’t easy. He came from generations of family members who never had a formal education. Farming was the best way for them to put bread on… Continue Reading Clearing the clouds in his eyes

Shabnam’s story: Community health work at its finest

| By Kashinath Bhoosnurmath, Global Director, Programmes
Categories: Communities, India, Other, Our Work
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Shabnam with other community health workers, are all working hard to educate their communities to eliminate avoidable blindness!
If you’re lucky, you chose what you wanted to study and what career interested you most. But what would it be like to live your life thinking that your future had been decided for you? Shabnam is a 32-year-old woman who lives with her husband and three children in Bhopal, India. She comes from a… Continue Reading Shabnam’s story: Community health work at its finest