Topic: Eye Care
The NevadaAppeal posted the following:
Near Gilgil, deep in the Rift Valley of Kenya, there is a “Granny Club” consisting of native African grandmothers who are raising their orphaned grandchildren. A program to teach the grandmothers to read was failing miserably until it was discovered that the grandmothers could not see well enough to read.
Then several of the grandmothers were fitted with affordable eyeglasses at the Rotary sponsored eye clinic at the nearby St. Mary's Mission Hospital. Now the grandmothers are learning to read...
Meanwhile Voice of America notes that "a non-governmental organization in Nigeria called Sightsavers is working to help restore sight to visually impaired people. The Federal Ministry of Health recently conducted a survey on visual Impairment. It found that about 1,130,000 people in Nigeria are blind. More than a third of them are in the northwestern states."
Updated: Saturday, 6 November 2010 9:47 AM EDT
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