We have visited some of the poorest and most needy countries and cities in the world.  Many are difficult to reach, long plane trips and bumpy roads.  We usually work long hours, often late into the night, and occasionally into the early morning hours of the next day!  But every trip we see old friends, and make new ones.  We see retuning patients coming back for their second eye surgery, and help new blind people to see. 

 

The pictures below only begin to tell the story of our trips. You can not help but laugh and cry at the same time the morning after surgery when you take the patches off and people can see for the first time in years.  Most of the patients we see are blind in both eyes when we see them. Once you have seen what we have seen, you can not help but come back a changed person.  Because of them, we have been changed for the good.