Ensuring women and children have equitable access to eye health services is a challenge in many developing countries. This challenge needs to be addressed because access issues, along with early promotion and prevention strategies, are fundamental – not only to healthy eyes but to healthy communities as well. Many women in India suffer from… Continue reading Consider this on Mother’s Day: Women suffer a greater risk of blindness
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Travels through India reveal great progress
In my travels, I have made it a point of understanding how other organizations work, their strategies and funding priorities, and comparing them to our Operation Eyesight partnerships and support. On my last visit to India, I was able to visit two of our partner hospitals and here are my observations. If the key to… Continue reading Travels through India reveal great progress
Operation Eyesight’s cause in Oz
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
Going to bed hungry
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