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A picture of an eye afflicted with river blindness

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A map of where river blindness is encountered

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50% of children in institutions for the blind in African countries would be able to read normal or large print with the help of eyeglasses or a magnifier.

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The Unite For Sight Program has come to reduce the burden, not only for the patient but also for the ophthalmologist who sometimes had to stay for two months without performing any eye surgery just because the patients could not pay to get their cataract removed.

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—Dr. Seth Wanye, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner