Guatemala: Dispatches from Gift of Sight camp ~ Dr. Agustin Omar Rodriguez Belli

... [I]t is amazing to witness their faces the day after surgery when they realize that they can enjoy simple everyday pleasures, like seeing their grandchildren for the first time.

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Source/Credit: Gift of Sight / Humanity First
By Dr. Agustin Omar Rodriguez Belli

It always inspires me to work with people who use their own free time and money, covering everything from airline tickets and hotel costs to medicines for patients and their room and board, to make the time to go to a foreign country and help people who they’ve never met without expecting a single thing in return.

Its difficult to imagine the life of people after years of decreasing quality of eyesight, how they slowly become accustomed to live without using their eyes, walking slowly across the room with a cane, using their hands to touch walls, always followed by someone close to protect them from the normally safe situations of life. But it is amazing to witness their faces the day after surgery when they realize that they can enjoy simple everyday pleasures, like seeing their grandchildren for the first time.

- Dr. Agustin Omar Rodriguez Belli


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