Tapuwa Gundana, born in Maputo (Mozambique), is currently performing her medical residence specialized in Ophthalmology at the Maputo Central Hospital. Honoring its commitment with Eyes of the world to train local professionals, Dr. Gundana has done an internship of four months in the Ocular Microsurgery Institute (OMI), thanks to the...
Isaki Lacuesta, acclaimed Spanish director who works in documentaries, feature films and video art, author of critically acclaimed films as The Legend of Time, The Double Steps, The Next Skin and Between Two Waters, has collaborated as a volunteer in the testimonials for our foundation’s 500,000 + 500,000 campaign. Two...
Mónica Lecumberri is a Catalan ophthalmologist who graduated in medicine and surgery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since becoming a volunteer in 2014, she has joined several of the ophthalmic expeditions Eyes of the world sends to the countries where a program is running. Dr. Lecumberri has travelled to...
Queco Novell is a Catalan journalist, actor and comedian. He was born in Barcelona in 1963. After completing his journalism studies in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he was a news anchor in TVE’s Catalan afternoon news broadcast. Later, he worked in Minoria absoluta, RAC 1’s political parody radio program....
The Eyes of the world art fund Visions has an audiovisual piece donated by Marina Núñez. So, we couldn’t miss her solo exhibition and ask her a few questions about her work and her opinions about our Foundation. Last May, you opened an exhibition in RocioSantaCruz Gallery. Was it your...
How did you start cooperating in the Eyes of the world Tarija project, and what is it about? I began my work for the Foundation in April 2016. I’m a psychologist and I coordinate eye health prevention workshops and conferences for children, little girls and teenagers. I also train teachers...
María has spent six months in refugee camps in Sahara. We’d like to learn more about her professional and personal experience there. It’s not the first time you work in a field commission. How long have you been cooperating with the Foundation? How did you start working with them? My...
Dr. Fatoumata was born in Bamako (Republic of Mali). She works as a pediatric ophthalmologist in the African Tropical Ophthalmology Institute (IOTA) in Bamako. She was our guest in Barcelona to offer her training in that medical specialty in IMO, in Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, and in Dr. Noguer’s...
When and why did you start to collaborate with Eyes of the world? I knew about the Foundation through the initiative Alumni Solidari from EDASE just when it started in its first edition around 2006. What encouraged you to keep supporting the Foundation as a volunteer? The inequality we are...
When and how did you get to know Eyes of the world? Why did you decided to involucrate yourself? At the end of 2007, I was studying an MBA in subspecialization in cornea and the previous segment in the Institute of Ocular Microsurgery (Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular – IMO) when...
How and when did you meet the entity? Why did you decide to get involved? I got to know the Foundation in an ophthalmologist congress and I signed up as a volunteer. I was already cooperating with other organizations, but Eyes of the world seemed to me close, serious and...
You are more than a decade linked with Eyes of the world, Why did you decide to collaborate? How do you value your experience along these years? When they told me about the Foundation’s project for the first time, I was impressed with what it means for the people that...