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now preparing for a mission to Madagascar In general, we follow our “clients” over
to work with another association which is several years, three to four years, making
already based there and receiving patients. sure that everything is going well, that it
They need more people and do not have the is self-financing, and they do not need any
appropriate technical skills. So, we will go further assistance. When we are satisfied
there to share our knowledge and teach the with the long-term outcome, we will go to
local medical doctors and will bring them another country. We are currently exploring
medical equipment. possibilities in Senegal that might become
our next partner.
We have also set up partnerships with
companies selling ophthalmology medical One of the biggest challenges we have had
equipment, medicines, and intraocular lens was that the Covid pandemic made it im-
implants. We also organize charity events, possible to travel. The Comoros and Mad-
and then we do crowd-funding campaigns. agascar did not accept visitors, so, we have
Right now, we have one ongoing so that we unfortunately lost almost two years of work.
can buy a sophisticated small machine that
is the size of a suitcase. Q: Going back to the Comoros activities.
How is the situation today?
We are also considering creating a kind of Today we have a local partner, a Comorian
clearing house for buying medical equip- ophthalmologist who receives us when we
ment from China and India. They have come. He recruits the staff, and we have two
very reasonable prices for ophthalmology to three interns in ophthalmology, who also
medical equipment, and the quality is very benefit from our venue to learn surgery, and
good. So we are looking for some serious develop their scientific knowledge in the
partners. field. So, each time we come, we also organ-

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