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Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and as President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997. Before her election as President, Mrs. Robinson served as Senator, holding that office for 20 years. In 1969 she became Reid Professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity College, Dublin.

She was called to the bar in 1967, becoming a Senior Counsel in 1980, and a member of the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1973. Educated at Trinity College, Mrs. Robinson also holds law degrees from the King's Inns in Dublin and from Harvard University ...

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Denis O'Brien

Denis O'Brien is Chairman of the privately-owned Digicel Group, one of the fastest growing cellular companies in the world.

Mr. O’Brien founded Digicel in 2001 when the company launched a GSM cellular phone service in the Caribbean. The Digicel Group has extended its operations to 22 markets with more than 4 million subscribers in the Caribbean, Central and South America region.

Digicel Pacific recently acquired a business in Samoa and has secured licences in Fiji and a number of other markets in the region ...

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Peter Sutherland

Peter Sutherland has served as chairman of BP plc since 1997 and chairman of Goldman Sachs International since 1995. He also serves as special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for migrations. Before these appointments, he was the founding director-general of the World Trade Organisation. He had previously served as director general of GATT since July 1993 and was instrumental in concluding the Uruguay GATT Round Negotiations.

Prior to this position, he was chairman of Allied Irish Banks from 1989 to 1993 and chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration ...

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  • Helping Hand for Cameroon's Elderly

    When Prince Bengha Martin looked around his home country of Cameroon and saw how marginalised and vulnerable the older generation had become, he decided to set up an organisation that would speak on their behalf...

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  • The Times Article

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  • Maintenance Training Course in Cameroon

    March 2009 - Aravind, the Ministry of Health of Cameroon, the German cooperation GTZ and Right to Sight partnered to organise a training course on the maintenance and repair of ophthalmic equipment in Cameroon.

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  • BUC Student Placement to Mbingo Hospital Cameroon

    March 09' - The Buskerud University College (BUC) in Norway approached Right to Sight to partner on an optometry project in Africa. Right to Sight, eager to help with the exchange facilitated that the Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Cameroon be used as the location.

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  • Article from Life Time Newspaper Cameroon

    Apr 09'

    An Article written in Cameroon in the Life Time Newspaper in April documenting the successful completion of the Equipment Maintenance Course run in collaboration with Right to SIght

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  • Orissa - Success Stories in Eye Care

    April 2009 - Right to Sight has been involved in the capacity building and sustainable growth of JMJ-GVN Hospital since 2007. Since getting involved the Hospital has performed 9,790 surgeries and seen an incredible 70,000 Out-Patients. JMJ-GVN was the first partner of Right to Sight in Eastern India.

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  • Sun Business Post Article

    May 09'

    Article from the SUNDAY BUSINESS POST in Ireland regarding the Pilates fundraising event run by Right to Sight in May 09'

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  • Right to Sight Pilates Record attempt

    Right to Sight held it's fist public fundraiser in Dublin in May with it's attempt to break a world record, read more...

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  • Article in The Irish Independent - June 09'

    The Trinity Sight team, finalist of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup global student technology competition, has devised an inexpensive and innovative technology solution to the training shortage using off-the-shelf products, including remotes from the Nintendo Wii games console and a laptop.

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  • IAPB Meeting Cameroon 25th - 28th May 2009

    For the first time, the members of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) organised a meeting for the Central Africa sub-region. This meeting was held in Limbé in the Southwest region of Cameroon.

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  • Exciting Development at MGMH, Durban, South Africa

    In collaboration with local partners the KwaZulu-Natal Eye Care Coalition and the Department of Health, RTS has this month started services at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital, in the northern suburbs of Durban.

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