When sight REALLY means LIFE... Since Spring of 2007 Asante has provided the Wakamba people of Kenya's Eastern Province with the basics of modern eye-care.
Each year Irish optician Bernard Jennings and travel writer Brendan Harding along with a small team of volunteers have traveled to this drought and famine afflicted region in an effort to improve the lives and restore a semblance of dignity to the people. To date over 4000 people have been screened for all manner of eye problems - from cataracts, lacerations, disease and snake venom to general age-related degeneration and solar-related degeneration - and from those tested over 500 have had sight-restorative treatments. Through the benevolence of family, friends, corporate sponsors and the ultimate kindness of strangers our work has been such a success and for this we thank you sincerely. However, a new and well-documented catastrophe has come to blight the lives of the Wakamba people, famine. With this in mind ASANTE will once-again continue fund raising to equip our friends in Kenya to sustain themselves through what may lie ahead. As always we look forward to your continued support and in return you will have the continuous thanks of so many. Translate This Page |
 2012 - Asante will enter Phase 2 of their Kenyan Eye Care project with a move the town of Mutomo, also deep in the arid Ukambani.  |
