The Calpe-based NGO Visió Sense Fronteres (Vision Without Borders), coordinated by Isabel Signes, returned this week from Kenya after a new campaign to prevent and treat blindness. This NGO has been visiting Kenya at least once a year since 2011 with the aim of performing cataract surgeries and, on occasions, training ophthalmological staff in the area.
A medical team consisting of three ophthalmologists, two nurses, three optometrists and a volunteer travelled to the Samburu province in the north of the country and performed a total of 158 eye surgeries, including six children born with congenital bilateral cataracts who were able to see for the first time thanks to this operation. As in previous years, Calp Town Council is collaborating with Visió Sense Fronteres in its charitable activities.
Visió Sense Fronteres is a registered charity that works to prevent blindness in two of its most important causes, cataracts and uncorrected refractive error. Today, 300 members and benefactors permanently support and finance Visió Sense Fronteres. The team consists of more than 40 volunteers. In its more than 25 years of existence, the NGO has helped more than 109,077 people, performed 11,353 cataract surgeries and donated more than 40,700 pairs of glasses.