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Climb for Sight 2005

What is Climb for Sight?

Climb for sight is sponsored by the Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity of Pennyslvania (VOSH/PA), a humanitarian organization dedicated to reducing avoidable blindness by empowering, training, and equipping eye care doctors in developing countries.

This 11-day trip will be physically challenging, but personally gratifying. The climb will take six days and will be led by professional guides with the assistance of two porters for each climber. A three-day safari in the Ngorngoro and Lake Manyara National Parks will precede the climb.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. It rises majestically to 19,340 feet. It is the largest free-standing mountain in the world.

Why?

Imagine being born blind. Worse yet, imagine suffering a blinding condition that could be treated. But because you were poor and lived in a remote region of the world you lived all the days of your life in darkness.

We want to prevent this tragedy. There are 212,000 children under the age of 14 who live in the rainforest of Guatemala. Studies show that 1,000 of these children need surgery for conditional such as congenital cataracts, corneal transplants, congenital glaucoma, and crossed eyes. The cost of surgery is just $200. The goal is to raise $200,000 to give sight to these children who have no means for seeking adequate eye treatment.

All surgeries will be performed at the Vincent Pescatore Eye Clinic. The clinic goal is to eliminate all avoidable forms of blindness in the Peten by the year 2008 by performing 12,000 surgeries.

Thus far, more than 120,000 patients have been treated with 8,477 sight-saving surgeries performed.

Full information: http://www.voshpa.org/climbforsight.htm

I thank Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity of Pennyslvania for cooperation.