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Poverty
shocked
Griffinite
“I was completely unprepar
ed for the poverty... the naked
children playing in open sewers.
. . the open air markets with
rotting meat hanging for sale in
the sun. . . the orange vendor
who washed his hands in the
filthy mudhole next to his fruit
stand. . . the five-year-old
washing her milk cup in the
open sewer. . . ” reflected Dr.
Leroy Harris after returning
from a health care mission in
Haiti.
The Griffin optometrist is
director of Georgia’s Volunteer
Optometric Service for
Humanity program. He, along
with other VOSH members
from several eastern states,
spent 10 days bringing an
unusual form of foreign aid to
the Haitians.
*
Dr.
/ Harris
They set up clinics and, using
eyeglasses donated by Grif
finites and other Americans,
prescribed more than 3,500
pairs and treated hundreds of
diseased eyes.
In addition to the 17 op
tometrists, the team was made
up of ophthalmologists, op
ticians, urologists, medical
doctors, a phychiatrist, nurses
and other volunteers.
Team members donated their
services and paid their own
travel expenses.
The teams are sent to under
developed countries who
reauest VOSH services.
In these countries, local Lions
Clubs, churches, clinics and
hospitals arrange details for the
VOSH professionals to
prescribe and fit the “recycled”
eyeglasses brought with them
from the States.
Some 12,000 pairs of glasses
were cataloged for prescription
and serviced before being
shipped for the Haiti mission,
Dr. Harris said.
He said even though he had
been briefed on conditions in
Haiti, he and the others were
completely unprepared for the
poverty they saw.
Unemployment runs some 60
percent and the average income
is less than $75 per year, he
said.
The clinics were a two-hour
bus ride each way over primi
tive roads. There were no
electricity, plumbing, phones,
restaurants or hotels in the
villages, he said.
Roads had pot holes almost as
big as the bus. Several streams
and creeks had to be forded,
because there were no bridges.
People walked for miles to the
clinics and patiently stood in
line all day in temperatures up
to 110 degrees. At the end of the
day, hundreds were still waiting
and would stay there all night to
keep from losing their places in
line for the next day.
There are only two ophthalo
mologists and one optometrist
in Haiti, Dr. Harris explained.
He said some Haitians had
had cataracts removed many
years earlier and were still
blind because they had been
unable to obtain glasses.
It was heartbreaking to close
the clinics when hundreds were
still waiting and could not be
served, he said.
More than 5,000 people were
examined, Dr. Harris said.
Future VOSH missions are
scheduled for the Dominican
Republic in January and June,
Nicaragua in March, Honduras
in April, Paraquay in July, and
in Haiti again next November.
Dr. Harris asked Griffinites
to continue to give their used
glasses.
“VOSH has a never ending
need for them,” he said.
The glasses may be left in
collection boxes at the Com
mercial and First National
Banks and local optometrists’
offices or may be given to Lions
Club members.
Dr. Harris said he has made
color slides of the mission and
will be glad to show them to any
group.