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![Schoolboys waiting to have their eyes examined in the St. Clare school in Wasserà. The school ist conducted by nuns of the Franciscan missionary order, who also are responsible for the local Health Center, providing primary e]()
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Ethiopia, with almost 6 million people affected by blindness or visual impairment, is one of the nations with the severest eye diseases problem worldwide, with Cataracts (1,7 million cases according to Orbis Int.) and Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection often connected to insufficient hygienic conditions (Ethiopia holds alone 30% of the cases in the sub-saharian area) being the leading causes. Furthermore, the lack of ophtalmologists (there are around 140 eye-doctors in the whole land) and structures impedes the population, especially the rural one, from having access to screenings and cures.
The project has been produced in collaboration with Amoa Onlus
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![Dr. Zelalem and his assistant during a cataract removal operation in the Heath Center of Wasserà. Dr. Zelalem, an Ethiopian ophthalmologist, operates in the Health Center one day every two months, having people coming from ne]()
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![A vision board hanging from a wall in the Heath Center of Wasserà]()
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![Image of an eye seen on the screen of an automated refractor, a machine used during eye examinations in order to measure refractive errors]()
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![A young boy affected by secondary cataract sitting in the local clinic of Gassa, in the Dawro Region.]()
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![A man in standing in front of a WHO-informative signboard showing measles symptoms and red eye symptoms]()
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![Young chorist before the holy mass in Bacho]()
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![A girl having her eyes examined with a slit lamp in the Catholic Health Center of Wasserà]()
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![The parable of Jesus healing the Blind of Jericho is displayed in the local clinic of Bacho]()
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![Young chorists during the holy mass in Bacho]()
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![A clinical nurse preparing the operating theatre in the Catholic Health Center of Wasserà]()
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![A cataract removal operation conducted by doctor Zelalem in the operating theater of Wasseràs Health Center]()
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![A blind young girl portrayed in the local clinic in Gassa, a structure conducted by the nuns of the Divine Providence Congregation, the Dawro region]()
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![An elder woman, partially blind, photographed after a eye-check in Bacho]()
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![Sister Kabbabousch an her assistant sterilizing clinical sheets after a series of ophthalmic operations in the Catholic Health Center of Wasserà]()
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![Surgical scissors photographed in the Health Center of Wasserà]()
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![A woman lies on the operating table after an eye operation in Gassa, in the Dawro region]()
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![A young schoolgirl during an eye examination at the St. Clare school in Wasserà]()
