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Team Operation Restore Vision (ORV) was very excited to lead the way and be the first team from Operation International to travel to Kakamega in Western Kenya for a Surgical Mission. The team completed 247 life-changing eye surgeries within just one week and helped establish OI as a trusted organization for medical missions in the future in Kakamega.
The ORV mission was the first time any outside Eye Surgical Team had come to this region of Kenya. The level of poverty is severe and the people have extremely limited options for advanced ophthalmic surgical care.
Each case offered a new quality of life for the patients, some of whom had been waiting years for eye care. These include one man whohad recently lost his job given that he had one eye and very limited vision. After receiving help from Team ORV, the man can now return to work. Another woman, who was also deaf, had lost her vision over the course of several months. Within a day of her surgery, her vision was fully restored.
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