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Pilot Water Well Maintenance Project report published
Recently, The Raven Trust has concentrated on the development of eye care, and has been winding down its remaining, non-eye projects. The very last of these was a Pilot Water Well Maintenance Project for the Ekwendeni Catchment area, and it was finally completed, with the issue of a report, in July 2019. Chris Challis, the project…
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Eye surgery at Embangweni Hospital
Some recent news from our partners at the eye clinic at Embangweni: a team of visiting clinicians organised screening and treatment for trachoma, an infection of the eye, with the staff at Embangweni eye clinic working alongside them. Screening identified 29 people who required surgery for trichiasis, a condition caused by trachoma. Surgery was was…
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Next Goggle Works Friday 14 June 2019
Our next Goggle Works party will be on Friday 14 June, at 19:30, in Colchester. Join us to sort, wash, measure and pack second-hand glasses, ready to send off to our partners in Malawi. Once in the clinics, they’ll be stored ready to dispense to patients. Providing second-hand glasses is important as new prescription glasses…