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the more people who can benefit from Dr always been something I have done. During
Leroy and his friends, the better. my studies, I went to Burkina Faso. One of
the advantages of being an ophthalmolo-
His last mission took place in Comoros in gist is that you have a comfortable income,
the Indian Ocean in November 2020, and in and that allows you to give to others. So, we
a couple of months he will go on another started to do humanitarian missions with
mission, to Madagascar, to set up another different existing associations. With them I
project. So let us leave the floor to Dr Leroy. went on missions to Madagascar and Cam-
bodia. One of the problems with this associ-
Q: Could you tell us a little about yourself? ation was that there was lots of goodwill and
I’m in my early forties. I studied medicine good deeds but no continuity of the human-
in Paris, and I did my ophthalmology spe- itarian surgical action. So, when we were no
cialization at Lille, where I made some re- longer present, nothing happened.
ally good friends, and together we have
developed our specialty skills and our asso- With the President of Terres d'Ophtalmo,
ciation. It has always been very important Camille Rambaud we started to reflect upon
for me to give and giving my free time has how we could remedy this situation: we go

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