The NGO ‘Visió Sense Fronteres’ from Calpe coordinated by Isabel Signes returns this week to Kenya to undertake a new campaign for the prevention and treatment of blindness. This NGO has been visiting Kenya since 2011 at least once a year with the aim of performing cataract surgeries and sometimes with the aim of training ophthalmological staff in the area.
On this occasion the medical team made up of four ophthalmologists, three nurses, two optometrists and a volunteer will travel to the province of Samburu in the north of the country. The delegation has the collaboration of the Ma Math Charitable Trust Kenya and the Office of the Women's Representative in Government.
The project coordinator Isabel Signes will travel to the area from this Friday as she is invited as a lecturer by Mmust University in Kakamega and will take the opportunity to finalise the preparations. The expedition will leave next week, as it is planned to carry out surgical interventions between 7 and 11 October at the Kisima Health Centre. As in previous editions, Calp Town Council collaborates with Visió Sense Fronteres in its solidarity actions.
Visió Sense Fronteres is an association declared of public utility that works for the prevention of blindness in two of its most important causes, cataracts and uncorrected refractive error. Today, 300 associates and benefactors permanently support and finance Visió Sense Fronteres. The Visió Sense Fronteres team consists of more than 40 volunteers. In its 25 years of life, the NGO has assisted more than 101,150 people, performed 8,353 cataract surgeries and donated more than 35,400 glasses.