Mairige, Wajir’s great-aunt, is totally and irreversibly blind. She believed this happened because a snake spat venom in her eyes, when she was working in the fields in Nigeria. The truth is so much worse. This 70-year old great-aunt talks about unbearable pain, intolerable itching… and then her eyes died. The truth is, it was […] 
Such beautiful faces, such warm and happy natures, but hidden behind these smiles, their little legs are badly bowed, bent and twisted. Every step is agony! “Prepare the way of the Lord. Make His paths straight.” – Mark 1:3 Kevine and Edward are twins in remote Uganda. Seven years old, their childhoods are filled with […] 
At just 22 years old, Victoria lost five babies in five years to miscarriages and stillbirths. If that wasn’t enough, after the traumatic birth of her fifth baby, she suffered from obstetric fistula, which occurs when the baby becomes stuck in the birth canal, tearing a hole and causing incontinence. This must have been devastating. […] 
Blindness had crushed Jack’s spirit. It started after his right eye was injured – which is extremely common among the thorns, barbs and branches of PNG’s dense rainforest. In fact, 1-in-15 men and 1-in-10 women in the Highlands struggle with blindness. “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” – Matthew 22:39 After his eye injury, […] 
Asgedech is being blinded in a most painful way, while trying to raise five grandchildren, who suffer the same condition – but you can help change everything for Asgedech and her five grandchildren … As many grandparents in New Zealand know, raising children and grandchildren on your own can be challenging, but what a testimony […] 
This is an exodus in our time. Almost a million people have fled from a land that has rejected, killed and maimed them. An exodus of devastating misery on a Biblical scale has happened in our time. When this first happened, it was world news. The camera crews have now left, but the human crisis […] 
Theo’s dad never knew the joy a parent has when their child sees them come into a room, that moment when their face lights up from recognition. Because of cataracts, the blinding white curtains growing inside his eyes, Theo couldn’t see his dad. “We were very worried,” said Theo’s dad. “If Theo is blind, he […] 
Fortunat was once a woodsman who supported his family by cutting boards beside a river, where black flies often bit him. Like New Zealanders and our mosquitoes, Fortunat thought the flies were just a nuisance, but they were deadly. The flies infected him with parasitic worms, which bred in vast numbers beneath his skin. “Lumps […] 
Dinknesh lives in constant fear. She suffers from trachoma, an infectious eye disease that causes extreme pain. And with every blink, she gets closer and closer to permanent blindness. But what makes Dinknesh most afraid is the fate of her three small children. Who will look after them when she goes blind? But it does […] cbm New Zealand
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