Dias Dos y Tres

Days two and three went smoothly even though the clinic was busy. Together, we saw over 3,100 patients, and have referred at least one hundred people to the surgery clinic. In fact, today was the first day of surgeries and we're all looking forward to hearing how the clinic is working out for the Vision Outreach International volunteers.

Here are just a few of the great stories that happen every hour on the hour in Honduras.
















Inneesha Nelson (Burnaby, British Columbia), pictured above, helped a 21-year-old woman with her first pair of glasses. The woman's prescription was fairly high, with a minus-6 cylinder (that's optical talk for not being able to see clearly). We were able to find a great match and the glasses matched the shirt she was wearing to boot!














Julie Kohler (Hartford, WI) dispensed a super pair of frames of a nine-year-old girl who received her first pair of glasses ever. She also had a high prescription with a minus-7 cylinder, not an easy match to make on a mission.















Inneesha and Amy Purcell (Akron, OH) helped find an excellent match for 35-year-old Maruin who had never worn glasses. He was minus-13 in one eye and minus-14 in the other. It was amazing that we were able to find glasses for him that so closely matched his prescription...and they were a fine, fine-looking pair. Tears all around in this group as we dispensed and his mother thanked us.














But in between the tears, there is always time for plenty of smiles, hugs, and blessings for all of the kids we see, including the fantastic group of volunteers from New Horizon School that have been with us for three clinic days. Truly incredible - they could run the clinic without us! Here's Craig Alter (Cincinnati, OH and chief blogger) hamming it up with a young recipient.















And, today was Hometown Day for the team. We all wore something that represented our home state whether it was sports-oriented or something else special from our city. And Christian Meinert from Germany sported a super pair of leather leiderhosen (sp?). Here he is with Candido Benvegnu from Sedico, Italy.

Speaking of Christian, he wants to say hello to all of his fans and friends in Germany and let you know he's made plenty of balloon animals.


And Eva Zawadzki from Odessa, Ontario gives a shout out to all of her family and friends. Eva leads our team in total donations to OneSight.