I am incredibly grateful to have made it to Ghana to work with Unite for Sight and assist the Crystal Eye Clinic conduct vision outreach.

Unite for Sight is a nonprofit leader in sustainable global health care delivery that partners with local eye clinics in Ghana, India and Honduras to conduct outreach and provide year-round, cost-effective eye care to people living in poverty. Worldwide over 31 million people are needlessly blind. Since 2000, Unite for Sight has brought eye care to more than 2.9 million people, including more than 109,000 sight-restoring surgeries.

While in Ghana, I delivered and helped distribute 600 pairs of glasses, assisted with visual acuity screening for hundreds of patients, and observed Dr. Clarke, Jerome and Earnest (ophthalmic nurses) providing transformative vision-restoring care.

Each time we drove to a new village for outreach, hundreds of people gathered around our pop-up clinic to be examined, given glasses and medication, or referred back to Accra for cataract surgery.

The impact of Unite for Sight and the Crystal Eye Clinic’s work in Ghana cannot be overstated. Opening doors to education and employment, the gift of sight profoundly changes the course and quality of people's lives.

I feel privileged to have made a small contribution to the incredible work that Unite for Sight and the Crystal Eye Clinic staff do every day!

 
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