NEWS UPDATE : NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2009

November/December brought a return to our usual busy activities with a field trip with the Adelaide Supporters Group; visits from Alan Crumlin to fit prosthetic legs, Dr Bill Ward to conduct a training session in children’s cataract operations, Professor John Crompton to provide training support for our new ophthalmologists, and Andrea Murphy to teach swimming to some of our staff and their children; the commencement of a new mobile eye clinic program in Lombok; a young Balinese patient travelling to Perth for a life-saving/ changing operation, and our senior medical technician, heading off to Melbourne and Adelaide for further training in the maintenance of ophthalmic equipment. In addition the final training session and closing ceremony was held for the Bali TB Training Project.

Adelaide Supporters Group

In early November members of the Adelaide Supporters Group, lead by Dennis Sims, travelled with the YKI teams to Amed in the dry eastern part of Bali to attend village eye screenings and to see first-hand the miracle of Adelaide Supporters Group a sight-restoring cataract operation. The group also went to local primary schools where the teams were checking children’s eyesight, and met up with the children they are sponsoring in our Education Assistance program.

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