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Programme brings community eye care awareness to remote areas in northern Malawi
The community eye health programme instigated by David Gordon Memorial Hospital (DGMH) in Livingstonia, northern Malawi, recently extended its work to Chakaka, one of the hardest-to-reach villages in the Livingstonia catchment area. Up to now, eye care for people in remote places such as this would only be available if they could make the long…
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Pause on glasses collections, except for ready-readers, sunglasses and vintage.
Back in 2005, when we first made plans to support the development of eye-care in northern Malawi, we started with sending second-hand measured glasses from the UK. Since then, friends and supporters have donated, sorted, cleaned, measured, labelled and packed thousands of specs for onward transmission to the mission hospitals. These have been invaluable to…
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February 2023 ‘Newslink’ now available
We’ve just published the latest Newslink, our bi-annual email newsletter. To view it and previous editions, go to our Newslink page. And on this page you can also sign up to receive it yourself.