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NEWS UPDATE : JULY-AUGUST 2010
The highlights of the July-August period are
outreach trips to Kupang and Lumajang, working
in conjunction with the Indonesian Air Force and Army,
and surgical training in Lombok and Bali with two volunteer
ophthalmologists from Australia.
Cooperation with the
Indonesian Armed Forces

In an exciting new venture for our
Foundation, we combined forces with
the Indonesian Air Force and Army
to take our field eye screening team and
mobile clinic to Kupang, West Timor, in
July to participate in their annual social
assistance program for the people. The Air
Force flew our team and one of our mobile
clinics by Hercules to Kupang, where the
team screened nearly 3,000 people over
two long days, distributed 2,088 glasses
and operated 68 cataract blind people in
the mobile clinic. The team also visited local
primary schools and checked the visual
acuity of 262 children.
At the same event, our Foundation
supported 33 children’s cleft lip operations
performed by the military surgeons in a
field hospital set up at the Air Force base.
With Drs. Frans Lebu Raya Governor of
NTT, Marshal Imam Sufaat, Head of the
Air Force, officially opened the event and
received 10 hydraulic hospital beds from
the Foundation for the Air Force hospital
in Kupang.
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