Restore sight to 200 villagers in rural Nigeria.

Hello everyone and hope you are enjoying the summer, staying safe and keeping cool.

Thank you for your continued support for our project to Restore sight to 200 villagers in South Eastern Nigeria, whichprovides much needed primary and specialist eye, and primary medical care services.

We are pleased to inform you that the nine individuals who received cataract operations in January 2022 are all doing very well, and their eyes are regularly being monitored.

We have started planning for the next eye screening outreach and cataract operations in December 2022/January 2023 and we will provide an update in our next report.

Our Medication Maintenance Programme is going well at our monthly clinics, during which we monitor the blood pressure and provide them with medication. We also facilitate and fund specialist investigations (e.g., chest x-rays and echocardiograms) and treatments. We hope to include blood sugar monitoring and issuing medications to control diabetes by the end of the year.

Economic hardship is increasing in Nigeria, with the poorest in communities becoming poorer. We continue to provide small interest free loans to the poorest families, to assist them with petty trading and subsistence farming.

Thank you so much for your continued support and wish you all well.

Restore sight to 200 villagers in rural Nigeria – Project ID 44482

Hello everyone and thank you for your continued support for our project to Restore sight to 200 villagers in South Eastern Nigeria, which provides much needed general and specialist eye care services.

We are both excited and delighted to announce that we carried out our first cataract operations last January. As we said in our November 2021 report, we carried out field eye screening of 327 people on the 10th & 11th September 2021, out of which 26 were identified as requiring specialist investigations. Nine (1 in both eyes) went to have cataract operations on 8th January 2022. The individual who was operated on both eyes is an 80 year old man who has been blind for six years – see photo with his wife and one of the project directors three days after operation bottom right.

We have also started our Medication Maintenance Programme, working with local health professionals. The aim is to enable the poorest individuals to receive regular supplies of medications (for high blood pressure for now) to help them maintain some level of control of the condition.

We provided more small interest free loans to the poorest families, to assist them with petty trading and subsistence farming to feed their families.

We are already planning for the next cataract operations in Dec 2022/Jan 2023 and look forward to sharing the good news with you.

Thank you so much for your continued support and wish you well.