One hundred million people are suffering from cataract blindness or vision impairment due to many factors, including the global shortage of surgeons. Despite being a treatable condition, millions remain blind […]

Most people are unaware that cataract blindness and visual impairment affects approximately 100 million individuals worldwide, (1) straining local communities where sight-restoring treatment is not accessible. In the realm of global health initiatives, it is common…

In the last of our series on doctors from Burundi, who have undergone the HelpMeSee training at Wenzhou Medical University, meet Anodine Daliko Nishimwe.Life in Burundi is difficult for many. Eighty percent of the population lives in poverty. Most exist on subsistence…

Samuel Kwizera knew he wanted to make a difference in his home of Burundi. He was a General Practitioner in the military and witnessed how bad eye disease and untreated cataracts were in his country. He wanted to do more, so Dr. Kwizera signed up for a class to learn…

Doctors go into medicine for various reasons but mostly to help people. That is why Vianney Ntakirutimana from the country of Burundi in East Africa went into General Medicine. After taking his medical exams Vianney went into General Practice. Still, after meeting so…

Growing up in Cameroon, Dr. Jeanne Mayouego Kouam struggled with vision issues. Her father took her to visit an eye doctor where, in a very dark room, the doctor performed an examination called a retinoscopy. Retinoscopy is a technique used to determine the refractive…

I want to train a cataract specialist to restore vision to people just like farmer Paul.Our work training cataract specialists is life-changing. Last year, HelpMeSee Medical Officer, Jean-Marie Andre, launched a training program to teach African ophthalmologists a…

“Grandpa, we’ve got to give all of our money to help the blind.”This grandfather took six brochures from popular global charities and spread them out on the dining room table. He then gave his granddaughter three separate, $5-dollar bills. The grandfather asked his…

She knew she wanted to be an ophthalmologist when she received her first pair of glasses at five years of age. The eye doctor’s office with its optical equipment and her ability to see the world again was like magic. Danielle Beleho from Yaounde, Cameroon, wanted to…

In 2019 HelpMeSee worked with Dr. Karla Pamela Gonzalez-Daher, an Anterior Segment Surgeon at the Institute Mexicano de Oftalmologia (Mexican Institute of Opthalmology or IMO) to incorporate the HelpMeSee Eye Surgery Simulator within Dr. Gonzalez-Daher’s Manual Small…