Pictures from the Eye Camp:)

Here are pictures, like promised, from the Eye camp in Mbale July 30th thru August 3rd.

We were on TV! :)

"I can see!" - Nayundi Rose

Eye Surgery Patients

"I can read!  I can read!" - Mandu Haruna

"I can see the small letters! Even the big ones!" - Makale John

"Yes yes I can read! Even this one: 'How satisfying to the eye and to the mind...', yes I can read.  Before I couldn't even read this (pointing to large writing) but now I can read." - Nabukonde Aisha

"I am grateful  We are thankful for your work.  I am the chairman of this place - Mbale - and we appreciate your work." - Matovu Musoke H.P.

The doctors kit to determine the power of lens of glasses

She started to cry as she read the bible out loud to us. - Tibwa Rult

1st Day - Line was super long and it was 30 minutes before it was supposed to start!

"The eyes are like a camera" - Lamula Mutesi

"May the Lord bless you so very much for all the work you have done." - Amodoi Grace Ruth

Doing eye screenings

"It is now finished? Thank you!" - Maiki Esther

All the glasses we started off with

"Entering small letters and reading them has been a problem for me.  I have even had to ask for assistence.  Now I do not have to.  Thank you very much." - Mabeli Siraji

This man had cataracts in both eyes. :(

We got a little bored while waiting for patients that first day...

 

"I am now alive. Thank you very much." - Ikabai James

Then line the 2nd day - super long and it was 30 minutes before starting again

"When I see them like this they are very fake, but when I put on they are very clear." - Atim Ketty Ojwar

Cute ladies - the one in the green dress is the nurse's mother.

This is the English lady who has lived in Uganda for 22 years. I told you about her in my previous post.  She was the cutest lady! "Nothing to pay?  God bless you.  He must have brought me here today." - Christine Birt

And that was the eye camp!  All the quotes are from some of the amazing people we were able to help. :)
1st day - 46 glasses given
2nd day - 84 glasses given
3rd day - 77 glasses given
4th day - 64 glasses given
5th day - 47 glasses given
Eye Surgeries - My guess around 150-200 (I will know exact numbers later)
Overall Patients Seen - 400 or more each day.

Quote of the day! :)
 "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." - Helen Keller