Dear friends of Eyecare; We just arrived back in the US after a long journey with a couple of ‘hiccups’ in the schedule. Ethiopian Airlines informed us when we reached Addis Abiba that our flight to Atlanta, Georgia had been cancelled. They rerouted us to Washington DC, and fortunately, we were able to catch another flight to Atlanta a few hours later. During our last week in Bulawayo, Steve saw patients in consultation, gave lectures, […]
Dear friends; This week has been a whirlwind of activity as we launched the new surgical retina program with our partners at the Mater Dei Hospital. Dr. Matt West, a retina surgeon from Birmingham, Alabama arrived on Saturday, February 22nd, and he began performing surgery on Monday, February 24th. Dr. Gilbert Moyo, the retina doctor in training, helped him, and quite soon after the first operation, Dr. West gave him some control over parts of […]
Dear Friends and Supporters; Thank you for your prayers this last week as we have been preparing for Dr. Matthew West’s visit to be the first retina surgeon in our training program. Dr West, originally from Columbus, GA, now resides with his family in Birmingham, AL where he is a partner with Retina Specialists of Alabama. It is interesting to note that Matt joined us 20 years ago on our team here to Zimbabwe as […]
Dear friends and supporters; Another very busy week has gone by. Two Australian eye nurses from the Perth Eye Hospital arrived on Saturday to spend 3 weeks with us as we teach, consult and prepare to start the new surgical retina training service. One of the nurses actually works in surgery where retina procedures are performed. She sets up the equipment and supplies for the cases, and scrubs in with the doctors. Her knowledge is […]
Dear Friends; We have now been in Zimbabwe for 1 week. The flights over were, thankfully, without any difficulties, although our transfer at Addis Abiba airport was quite stressful. We were surprised, but grateful, to see our luggage arrive when we landed in Bulawayo. Steve started back immediately with consultations and teaching. He found that the advanced cataract teaching program has continued in his absence. The fourth group of young eye doctors are now being […]
Dear Friends and supporters; We depart for Zimbabwe tomorrow to continue the work and ministry in Bulawayo and in the southern part of Zimbabwe. We will be flying with Ethiopian Airlines (our first time with this carrier, and with a bit of concern on Steve’s part…. Reliability, baggage safety etc.). However, we know that the Father is with us, and He will protect and provide. The advantage of this decision is that we will fly […]
Dear friends of Eyecare To The Needy; We have been quite busy since returning from Zimbabwe 6 weeks ago. As you can see from the pictures that we have attached, we have begun to gather equipment and supplies to ship over to Africa. Steve built this crate to house a very high tech instrument which will be used to perform surgery on the retina in the posterior part of the eye. Earlier this week the […]
Dear friends of Eyecare To The Needy; It has been another busy couple of weeks here in Zimbabwe. We led another eye camp at a retirement facility, seeing most of the residents and blessing them with medications, glasses, sunglasses and Bibles. These residents are quite poor. One gentleman told Steve that his monthly income is $150, and $105 goes towards the rental of his little room. The balance is used to buy a little food, […]