100 Eye Surgeries in Ethiopia
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Your donation will fund:
The eye surgeries for 100 people in Ethiopia.
Target:
€
3,605.00
Donors:
8
181.0000
€
3,424.00
to go
Location:
Country:
Ethiopia
Charity:
Orbis Ireland
Charity
Orbis Ireland
Project Owner
Diane Weatherup
Project Details
A simple surgery costing only €35 can save someone’s sight - with effective treatment, someone’s suffering could be over in a matter of hours. Their sight could be saved and their life transformed.
Out of the two million people who are currently living in the Gamo Gofa, Derashe and Konso region of southern Ethiopia, approximately 34,000 people are suffering with a chronic, painful and blinding disease and are in need of immediate surgical intervention. Unless treated these young people will become blind, will no longer be productive and will be a burden on the community and the country at large.
ORBIS is conducting a number of outreach programmes to particularly remote areas of the Gamo Gofa, Derashe and Konso regions, where there are currently little or no primary eye care facilities.
Project Costs
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100 Eye Surgeries
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100
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€
35
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€
3,500
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3% Administration fee for MyGoodPoints :
€105.00
Total Project Cost (including
3%) :
€3,605
Project Location:
Ethiopia
Many of the roads in Gamo Gofa, Derashe and Konso are very poor and therefore it is at times extremely difficult to gain access to remote areas, especially during the rainy season. Access to medical care for the residents of these remote villages is a huge challenge.
Trachoma is very prevalent in the particularly isolated areas so gaining access is essential in order to conduct the necessary surgeries to help to eliminate the blinding eye disease, trachoma. During each outreach program ORBIS could screen more than 1000 people for active trachoma and conduct more than 120 sight saving surgeries.
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