Restoring vision to hundreds in China
Seeing an elderly Tibetan woman weep with joy when cataract surgery restored her vision after 10 years is the kind of moment Dave Razo will never tire of.
For several summers Razo, a member of the Rotary Club of Warner Robins, Georgia, USA, traveled to rural northwest China with a team from Georgia-based nonprofit Gansu Inc., to provide free sight-restoring cataract surgery to some of the country’s poorest residents. In 2012, after 22 years and 6,000 successful procedures, Gansu’s founder, ophthalmologist William Conrad, retired and discontinued the organization’s operations.
But Razo didn’t…
