Posts Tagged ‘surgery’

A new eye, at last.

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Tweet In October this year, Duniya Foundation financed the eye-surgery of 22 children in the Vietnamese mountain town Lai Chau. At that time, we could not help all of those who came to us for screening: some of them had problems (tumors) too complex for the medical team to handle. [Read more under the photo, [...]


Operation Vietnam

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Tweet In Lau Chau Province (Vietnam), Duniya Foundation supports the surgery of children from poor ethnic minority communities. The families often travel for days from their remote villages in the mountains, and hope for medical help. Hundreds of children were succesfully operated and their problems varied from orthopedic trauma, to burn scars, urological problems, and [...]


Photo of the Month: September

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Tweet He knew that our project focusses on the surgery of handicapped children (Duniya Foudation), but he begged us to help him too: a grown-up man with a severe cleft lip (schisis). He felt so ashamed, life was hard. Then, in his village in the mountains, he heard a voice on the radio telling about [...]


Photo of the Month: August

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Tweet Plural this time, for I want to show you more than just one photo. We (Dong An, our Hanoi based Vietnamese counterpart, our surgeons and Duniya Foundation) are planning the surgery of another 100 children by the end of November. Preparations are already being made and local health workers try to list and organize [...]


Photo of the Month: April

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Tweet A young father carries his son into the very basic operation room where Dr. Hung is waiting to perform the surgery. Duniya Foundation is financially supporting these operations, organized by Dong An from the Hanoi based NGO Center II, Direct Support for Disabled Children. As a photographer and member of Duniya Foundation, I spent [...]