STORIES OF HOPE

Stories of Hope

Seeing the World Again: Dr. Danielle Beleho Trains to Restore Vision to the Cataract Blind of Cameroon

Mar 11, 2020

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...

Q&A with Dr. Karla Pamela Gonzalez-Daher from the Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmológica

Nov 18, 2019

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...

HelpMeSee Eye Surgery Simulator Demonstrations at CCC 2019

Nov 12, 2019

Schedule a time to demonstrate the HelpMeSee Eye Surgery Simulator at the 2019 Comprehensive Cataract Conference (CCC 2019) and 3rd Biennial Word Conference on Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery held on November 29 in West Bengal, India.Attendees of the 2019...

Solving the Public Health Crisis of Blindness in Latin America

Oct 8, 2019

HelpMeSee is placing an Eye Surgery Simulator to the Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmología (IMO) a charitable hospital in Queretaro, Mexico dedicated to providing high-quality eye care at a low cost. Please help us support IMO and other HelpMeSee training partner...

My Two-Week Volunteering Experience at HelpMeSee

Jun 28, 2019

The following is a letter from our Summer Intern MacCoy Weil will be attending American University in London as a freshman this Fall. Many thanks to MacCoy for his contributions during his time here in the HelpMeSee New York office. It is estimated that cataracts are...

Meet with Dr. Gao Weifeng: Our Everyday Hero

Jun 6, 2019

Dr. Gao Weifeng was born in an impoverished rural area of Shandong Province in China. His father was a teacher and his mother was a farmer. In the rural areas of China, academic success is the only way for children to change their destiny. So, Dr. Gao studied...