Dr. Bacin has just returned from Mali. At his 67 years of age, this is the third time that he has been in the Tropical Africa Ophthalmological Institute (IOTA) within the framework of the training activities that the Foundation has been running since 2008 and which are part of the eye health improvement project in […]
Patricia Tárraga is the coordinator of the cooperation project that the Foundation carries out in El Alto and its area of influence. She is the head of the local team. With a degree in Financial Audit and Business Administration, Patricia began her professional career as an external consultant for different private companies. In 2001, she […]
Carlos Moser has a special relationship with Mozambique, a country which sparked his interest in ophthalmology. He went in 1984, when he was working as an internist in the Quelimane Hospital and saw how ophthalmology helped return vision to patients and how that gave the service an atmosphere of true joy in comparison with the […]
Santiago Ruiz is an example of a professional involved with Eyes of the world in a non-health related project. Even though he has a degree in medicine and surgery, his subsequent specialty in management has led him to spend practically all of his working life in companies supplying hospital equipment. Santiago has collaborated with Eyes […]
Teresa Palahí has been a trustee of Eyes of the world for almost two years. She joined the organization at the end of 2009 as a representative for the ONCE Foundation for Latin America, replacing the director general, Fernando Iglesisas. Since the beginning, her professional career has been linked to the Spanish National Association of […]
Jesús Barragán has been an equipment technician at the University Hospital Virgen Macarena of Seville for years, work that he combines with volunteer work at Eyes of the world. The role of the electromedicine technician, although at first it may seem to be in the background, is absolutely essential for the rest of the Foundation’s […]
Bibiana Ruberte traveled for two months to the Sahrawi refugee camps to coordinate and follow first-hand the organized activities on the ground during the last quarter of the year. Her stay coincided with the controversial evacuation that the Moroccan army carried out in the Agdeim Izik camp, which demanded better conditions of life for the […]
Hernán E. Gras made his first trip to Bolivia this June as a medical supervisor of the Eyes of Bolivia programme, a position he has held since the beginning of the year. His focus was forming a commission that aimed to detect the capacities of local health workers that the Foundation has been training since […]
Maria Mercè traveled this spring to Mali to participate in the second medical-surgical commission of the Foundation’s project in the African country, which has taken place in the Reference Hospital in Bankass, equipped with a complete surgical unit funded by Eyes of the world. A doctor, she is a volunteer that is very involved with […]
