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66 year old Manuri Dhami of Bajhang District in Nepal had been living with cataract blindness for the past three years. With no money for surgery, and the closest eye hospital being ten hours away, she and her family members had accepted blindness as Dhami’s fate. Bajhang is a

Many people across the world live a life of needless blindness. The Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation have made it their mission to travel around the world to cure those living with cataract blindness to alleviate poverty. Paruli Devi lives in Bajhang District in Nepal’s far-western region. She used

Reaching out to several remote regions in Nepal has shown that women are often treated as second-class citizens and much worse after losing their sight. Whilst reaching out into different communities, you start to realise that there is quite a lot that we take for granted. Understanding the world outside

When Murathi Parsi of the Kapilavastu District of Nepal went blind, surgery was out of reach. Despite living only one hour away from an eye hospital, the family simply did not have the USD $70 needed for her surgery. Her husband and her son, both daily wage earners, had to