Matilda
This cute little girl had cataracts and couldn't even see a hand waving directly in front of her face. She was referred to the Mercy Ship where they could do surgery under general anaesthesia. Thinking of her brings sadness but also some satisfaction. Satisfaction because if our program had not been operating this summer I don't know when she would have finally got the surgery she needed, but sadness because it's difficult to say how much of her sight will return because this simple surgery was not made available to her at a younger age.
Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more 
