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Euro, fundraising, human rights, Journalism, Prague, Restaurant
How many times have you left 800 CZK in a restaurant after a tasty meal with a good assorted wine and nice atmosphere? I’m sure that many of us have done this at least a few times throughout this year. Well, those 800 CZK are the price of giving the light back to the eyes of a blind person in Ethiopia. That’s the cost of a cataract surgery in this African country where out of roughly 80 million inhabitants 1 million have vision disabilities, according to Hana Chorváthová, fundraising and communication manager with the non-governmental organization Světlo pro Svet (Light for the World). Chorváthová spoke in a panel discussion on public institutions and educations organized by the Encuentro Exetec international fair that took place in Prague on October 8-9, 2010.
Some 80 percent of the cases of blindness now existing in the world can be treated. For a surgery that takes 15 minutes in Prague and costs much more, those people need only what we leave one evening in a restaurant or one Saturday in a supermarket. I have a feeling that this is a good cause worth of our consideration.
http://www.svetloprosvet.cz/
