What’s the big deal about water?

Categories: Communities, Kenya, Our Work

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?

Going to bed hungry

Categories: Communities, India

I often think that those of us in prosperous countries have a hard time understanding what it’s like to live in a place with no public health care, as many developing nations can be. Imagine the impact that this has on economic development and general health. I heard an interesting comment from G. Chandra Sekhar,… Continue Reading Going to bed hungry