I will be collecting extra sunglasses or old prescription glasses to bring to sites in India and Africa. If you have extra sunglasses or prescription glasses, contact me and we will work out a way to get them.
I will be a Unite For Sight volunteer in:
Chennai, India 06/20/2008 - 06/30/2008
Bihar, India 07/01/2008 - 07/15/2008
Accra, Ghana 08/01/2008 - 08/15/2008
http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer/pages/?name=eric%20einstein
Did you know that 80% of blindness is preventable? I am excited to be one of Unite For Sight's volunteers who will be eliminating preventable blindness.
I will work with a partner eye clinic to screen for eye disease, implement education programs, and coordinate sight-restoring surgery for children and adults.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight's volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic's eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic's eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
