SEE’s Humanitarian of the Year Award honors the dedication and achievement of volunteer ophthalmologists and partner organizations that are committed to ending preventable blindness.
This June, we partnered with Alcon and Hospital de la Familia in Nuevo Progresso, Guatemala, to offer vital eyecare services and cataract surgeries to patients in need.
Dr. Helena Ndume, a star eye surgeon and SEE volunteer, was awarded the United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize on July 24, 2015 at the United Nations.
In 2002, I traveled to Da Nang, Vietnam, as part of a SEE (Surgical Eye Expeditions) project.
Caleb Ashbrook is a pre-med student from Texas Christian University (TCU), who volunteered on a joint SEE International & Mission of Healing Eyes sight-restoring program to Zihuatanejo, Mexico in May 2015.
David Hall is an American who has worked as a volunteer missionary in the Philippines for many years. In 2014, he lost his sight to cataracts and sought treatment from a SEE clinic.
Meet Jaedeanne Shaver, an Alcon employee from Fort Woth, Texas, who traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to participate on a SEE expedition.
Little Angel was born with congenital cataracts – one of the most easily treated causes of blindness in infants.
On Friday, September 13, 2013, SEE volunteer Dr. Janak Shah, MBBS D.O., left his family and busy practice in Mumbai, and boarded a plane to Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.
SEE International is proud to congratulate Drs. Luis Arévalo Soto and Ximena Guzmán de Arévalo for a successful surgical program to treat blindness in Chongwe, Zambia.
As fall arrives, I am reminded of a trip I took some years ago to a conference at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
When Dr. Kris Karlen and ophthalmic technician Charles Narh volunteered with SEE International to perform free eye surgeries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), they expected it to be a routine expedition.
In honor of World Sight Day in 2015, SEE launched an annual Humanitarian of the Year Award, to recognize the outstanding dedication and achievement of volunteer ophthalmologists committed to ending avoidable blindness.
On July 24, 2015, SEE volunteer Dr. Helena Ndume of Namibia became the winner of the first-ever United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize for her sight-restoring work and dedication to humanity.
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