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Many of the poorest cities in the world are ports – places with the highest infant mortality, shortest life expectancy and lowest income. Mercy Ships docks in these ports deploying volunteer professionals to provide world class care for people who don’t have a National Health Service to turn to Our latest hospital ship is self-contained, equipped with its’ own water, power, skilled volunteers and medical supplies. In this way Mercy Ships can side-step some of the basic and intractable problems facing other aid agencies – lack of reliable power, water, personnel and ways to deliver supplies – and make a lasting difference
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80% of blindness and poor vision among people living in poor nations is treatable, easily curable in the case of cataracts (the cause of half of all cases of blindness in the developing world) Project Goals: Reduce prevalence of blindness/poor vision due to cataract and pterygium. Build capacity of local eye care system to achieve 16% of WHO Vision 2020 goal (20,740 cataract operations per year) Expected Outcomes: 1,650 people to receive sight via cataract surgery. 100 people to receive sight through pterygium removal. Evaluate/treat 12,000 patients for basic eye disease. Raise awareness of basic eye health & distribute 5,000 UV blocking sunglasses and 5,000 reading glasses 6 African/Africa based surgeons trained in cataract removal. 2 Togolese eye care staff trained Cost: Total project costs are £369,500