For María, her children’s eye health has been a matter of care and concern, but multiple cultural, gender and economic barriers hindered, for years, the access of Edgar, her firstborn, to the eye care he required. The intervention of his teacher, the involvement of the educational community and the support...
Graduated in Medicine in Brazil more than forty years ago (1981), Ricardo Casaroli has a long history of higher education that has led him to become a specialist in ophthalmology at the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona, a job that he combines with teaching at the University of Barcelona (UB). In...
Rebecca Togo is the president of CAFO Koro. CAFO is a set of ONG’s and women’s associations in Mali that aim to help improve the situation of women through training and raise awareness actions. CAFO Koro and Eyes of the world in Mali collaborate to reduce gender inequality in Koro,...
Núria Ramon graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona in 1990. She began her involvement with Eyes of the world in 2001 when she began her career as a member of the Board. In 2003, she became the general manager of the Foundation until October 2021. With her in...
CMB has been working for more than 30 years to improve the life of people with disabilities in Latin America and The Caribbean. Its cooperation model is through the collaboration with local experts, such as the Eyes of the world Foundation. Annacarola is the director of the Global CBM’s office...
Dr. Bamanta is head of the Ophthalmology Department at the Hospital Sominé Dolo in Mopti, a reference centre for the region. Currently, thanks to support from the Foundation, he is carrying out a semi presence-based training programme at the Hospital Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, so as to improve...
Since 2014, Alarcos Cieza, who was born in Ciudad Real, is the responsible of the Vision, Audition, Disability and Rehabilitation Department of the World Health Organization (WHO). Her task is to develop action plans and health policies in developing countries in accordance with their own ministries. In this interview, she...
Pereira is the ocular health responsible for the province of Inhambane. He is a trained optometrist and his call was to make accessible to his countrymen quality ocular attention services. Pereira has just been recognized by the IAB as Eye Health Hero, in the category of Future Leaders. An international...
When and why did your concern for recreating means of air and maritime transport in sculptures and paintings appear? In fact, this begins at the beginning of the 80s when I was interested, together with the machines in which I already showed some interest, in discovering new territories and, above...
Miren Rodríguez, a historian, is coordinator of the territorial delegation of Eyes of the world in the Basque Country – Munduko begiak -, headquartered in Bilbao. An energetic, committed and always predisposed woman. Miren knows Basque society and faces with optimism and tenacity the task of bringing the vulnerability of...
Nicolás Cortés is a historian (specifically a historian of Africa) who has worked in the field of international cooperation since 1994, when he started working in trade unions and NGOs. Afterwards, he started his professional work at the City Council of L’Hospitalet de Llobegrat as the councilman of Cooperation, and...
Embarcalina Saluh (Bakina) is the joint coordinator for Eyes of the world Foundation in the Sahrawi refugee camps. This type of role was almost unthinkable for a woman in the Sahara due to the social and cultural prejudices. In this interview, she talks about her experience as a working woman...