Ethiopia

Instruments used during eye surgery at the Arsi Negele Health Center in Arsi Negele, Ethiopia.

Patients wait outside the eye examination building at the Arsi Negele Health Center in Arsi Negele, Ethiopia.

Nurse Midadu Kufa, (L), talks with family members about the medication she will give their relative (R) and how to administer it after the lady's exam at the Zeway Secondary Eye Care Center in Zeway, Ethiopia.

Kuma Bedena, 50, has her left eye examined by nurse Midadu Kufa at the Zeway Secondary Eye Care Center in Zeway, Ethiopia. Bedena's eye was injured when a stick hit it.

Patients take an eye exam at the Butajira Secondary Eye Care Center in Butajira, Ethiopia.

A man washes his face outside the building at the Arsi Negele Health Center where eye surgery and exams are performed in Arsi Negele, Ethiopia. Unsanitary water and flies carrying bacteria are two of the common sources of eye disease in Ethiopia.

A patient at the Butajira Secondary Eye Care Center in Butajira, Ethiopia takes an eye exam.

Flies carrying bacteria are a common source of eye disease in Ethiopia. This young boy was waiting to see a doctor at the Arsi Negele Health Center in Arsi Negele, Ethiopia.

A doctor performs eye surgery, removing cataracts, from a female patient’s eyes while two attending nurses assist at the Arsi Negele Health Center in Arsi Negele, Ethiopia.

Dr. Worku Mekonen, ophthalmologist and Medical Director of the Zeway Secondary Eye Care Center, uses a slit lamp to examine a patient's eye while nurse Midadu Kufa instructs the patient to look at her finger in Zeway, Ethiopia. The clinic has seen more than 43,000 patient's since during the three years they have been open.

Dr. Worku Mekonen, an ophthalmologist and medical director of the Zeway Secondary Eye Care Center, examines a patient's eye in Zeway, Ethiopia.

A young boy cries as his eye is examined at the Zeway Secondary Eye Care Center in Zeway, Ethiopia.