Monthly Archives: October 2010
Back to basics
In Nkhoma, I am planning carefully for the next two months as we run up to the end of the year. We will stop working for Christmas, but will be aiming to help as many people as we can for the next two months, and hope to work flat out.
I had a busy day on [...]
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Looking towards 2020
There are some fantastic new estimates coming out of the WHO that 39.8 million people are blind worldwide; which is a decrease of just over 5 million (13%) in the past 6 years!
Around 80% of blindness is avoidable (as in treatable or preventable); and 90% of blind people live in low income countries.
We are winning [...]
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World Sight Day 2010
As we count down to Vision 2020…
Thursday 14th is World Sight Day! An international day of awareness to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment.
80% of global blindness is avoidable.
4% of the World’s population are blind or severely visually impaired. That’s four times the population of the UK! It’s truly [...]
Posted in Adult, Blindness, CBM, Cataract, Malawi, Surgery, Vision 2020, World Sight Day, blindness prevention Tagged Cataract, IAPB, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Mrs Kadzichi, Mrs Samuel, v2020, Vision 2020, WHO, World Health Organization, World Sight Day, WSD, WSD2010 Leave a comment
Nkhoma Eye Hospital Team
It was Strinnar Duncan’s wedding day yesterday. 9am Church, followed by photos around Nkhoma, then a big lunch (chicken and goat); and then lots and lots of dancing (Pelikani-pelikani; the tradition of different groups of guests dancing at different times, throwing money in the air as you go).
Strinnar is 5th from the left, on the [...]
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Daily Danger