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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