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December 18, 2019 After a successful mission trip in May 2009, I was asked again to participate in the “2010 Casa de Luz Medical and Eye Surgery Mission Trip”, organized by Casa de Luz and Island Impact Ministries. As last year, the goal of the mission was to provide free surgical and medical eye care in the poorest province of the Dominican Republic, primarily for underprivileged children and adults who do not have access to eye medical care. I travelled on Sunday February 2

January 05, 2017 A 70-year-old with cataracts? Not unusual. And with access to modern cataract surgery – quite treatable. But what about a five-year-old born with cataracts? Not the norm. And in the Dominican Republic where access to modern eye surgery or even basic health care is not a given, what happens then? When a five-year old girl who was born with cataracts in both eyes (meaning very poor vision from birth) came to seek care at the Instituto Oncologico Regional