Imran Khan is an expert in public health (MPH from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), business administration, optometry, and healthcare with over 20 years’ experience in international health and development settings and academia. Based in Washington, D.C., he leads Sightsavers’ strategy and programme development, which often takes him both to the UK […]
Mendicute and Gessa, Javier and María, are prestigious specialists in ophthalmology. Reputed professionals and medical directors of the Miranza Group at the Miranza Begitek clinic in Donostia and the Miranza Virgen de Luján clinic in Seville, respectively. They are also professionals who are sensitive to people with vision loss and without economic resources who are […]
Patricia Fernández-Deu has a degree in Journalism and Humanities. Her professional career has developed over twenty years in the field of communication. She has been the director of the agency Estrategia and, since 2016, she has been collaborating with MAHALA Communication and Public Relations in project management. She is a communication consultant and specialist in […]
For María, her children’s eye health has been a matter of care and concern, but multiple cultural, gender and economic barriers hindered, for years, the access of Edgar, her firstborn, to the eye care he required. The intervention of his teacher, the involvement of the educational community and the support of Eyes of the world […]
Graduated in Medicine in Brazil more than forty years ago (1981), Ricardo Casaroli has a long history of higher education that has led him to become a specialist in ophthalmology at the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona, a job that he combines with teaching at the University of Barcelona (UB). In March 2022, the rector of […]
Rebecca Togo is the president of CAFO Koro. CAFO is a set of ONG’s and women’s associations in Mali that aim to help improve the situation of women through training and raise awareness actions. CAFO Koro and Eyes of the world in Mali collaborate to reduce gender inequality in Koro, in the Mopti region. Togo […]
Núria Ramon graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona in 1990. She began her involvement with Eyes of the world in 2001 when she began her career as a member of the Board. In 2003, she became the general manager of the Foundation until October 2021. With her in charge, the Foundation has consolidated […]
CMB has been working for more than 30 years to improve the life of people with disabilities in Latin America and The Caribbean. Its cooperation model is through the collaboration with local experts, such as the Eyes of the world Foundation. Annacarola is the director of the Global CBM’s office in Bolivia and she focuses […]
Dr. Bamanta is head of the Ophthalmology Department at the Hospital Sominé Dolo in Mopti, a reference centre for the region. Currently, thanks to support from the Foundation, he is carrying out a semi presence-based training programme at the Hospital Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, so as to improve his skills with respect to […]
Since 2014, Alarcos Cieza, who was born in Ciudad Real, is the responsible of the Vision, Audition, Disability and Rehabilitation Department of the World Health Organization (WHO). Her task is to develop action plans and health policies in developing countries in accordance with their own ministries. In this interview, she and her colleague Juan Carlos […]
Pereira is the ocular health responsible for the province of Inhambane. He is a trained optometrist and his call was to make accessible to his countrymen quality ocular attention services. Pereira has just been recognized by the IAB as Eye Health Hero, in the category of Future Leaders. An international prize that recognizes professionals that […]
When and why did your concern for recreating means of air and maritime transport in sculptures and paintings appear? In fact, this begins at the beginning of the 80s when I was interested, together with the machines in which I already showed some interest, in discovering new territories and, above all, two unknown worlds, such […]
