About the Organization
The ASCRS Foundation's Robert Sinskey Eye Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, treats impoverished eye care patients. The Eye Institute, in continuous service since 2005, treats the poor and underserved from general eye care to cataract and glaucoma surgeries. With a population of 85 million, it's estimated that 4 million Ethiopians suffer from cataract blindness or low vision. The Eye Institute will treat 12,000 patients this year. The World Bank estimates that for every $1 spent on eye care $5 is returned to the local economy. In a poor country like Ethiopia, not only is the blind lost to the economy and the society at large, but someone has to be a full-time caretaker. Many times this caretaker is a child who will not be able to go to school and the cycle of poverty and destitution is begun. The foundation is excited to break the blindness-caused poverty cycle at our Eye Institute.
About the Opportunity
At and around the Robert Sinskey Eye Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Compelling images of 1) poverty - not only individuals, but groups and even local muddy markets; 2) blind or low vision patients being tended by child - maybe a patient being led by a stick?; 3) children w/blindness or low vision - being carried by an adult?; 4) patient waiting lines; 5) patients undergoing surgery; 6) patients in post-op room; 7) staff taking a break, looking tired; 8) individuals conveying distraught hopelessness in their facial and body expressions
