A view of Kalinga Eye Hospital

Born from the son witnessing the suffering of the father.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOYGZjPAnM

Flight booked

Dubai → Bhubaneswar Thu, 27 Jun 2013

• IndiGo6E 22
• DXB 22:20Thu, 27 Jun, 2013Dubai - Dubai (DXB)
• 3h 25m
• 03:15 DELFri, 28 Jun, 2013New Delhi - Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL), Terminal Terminal 3

Transit time: 3h 45mChange Planes

• IndiGo6E 257
• DEL 07:00Fri, 28 Jun, 2013New Delhi - Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL), Terminal Terminal 3
• 2h 5m
• 09:05 BBIFri, 28 Jun, 2013Bhubaneswar - Biju Patnaik (BBI)

Training at Moorfields

I confirmed today that I will be doing eye health training late May at Moorfields Hospital.  I'm surprised that I could call and ask to shadow their staff for a couple of days and be so graciously accommodated.  In the meantime, I've got a bit of studying to get ready.   My curriculum is outlined below.

Imagine living on $0.48 a day

This is the official poverty rate in rural India.

What would your life be like?

Two young men wanted to understand, and so they did a little experiment.  They went to live in an Indian village.

They ate parboiled rice, a tuber and banana and drank black tea: a balanced diet was impossible on the Rs. 18 a day which their briefly adopted ‘poverty' permitted. They found themselves thinking of food the whole day. They walked long distances, and saved money even on soap to wash their clothes. They could not afford communication, by mobile and internet. It would have been a disaster if they fell ill. For the two 26-year-olds, the experience of ‘official poverty' was harrowing.

As one commenter observes, these young men didn't have to work for their money, so their particular experience was much less harrowing than it is for those who live this every day and for whom there is no escape.  

Read more here.  

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