Right to Sight Trustees

Trustees

Jane McGrath
Trustee

Ms McGrath works in Dublin as a Planning, Development and Construction Consultant in Dublin. Jane has been involved with humanitarian projects for many years, following a long family tradition ...

Prof W. Arthur Tanner
Trustee

Professor Tanner, MD, FRCSI, FRCSEd, FFSEM, is a General Surgeon. He qualified as an undergraduate from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, and was subsequently awarded a Doctorate from the same university...

Prof Ruairi Brugha
Trustee

Professor Brugha MD, FFPHMI, MSc, DCH, Dip Obs, Dip Humanities is Head of the Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland ...

Claire Cronin
Trustee

Details coming soon

John Sandford Smith MBE
Trustee

Recent Post: Consultant Ophthalmologist, Leicester Royal Infirmary from September 1979 to October 2000 and Honorary Clinical Tutor to the University of Leicester ...

Nollaig Fahy
Trustee

Nollaig Fahy is the Chief Executive Officer of the Research and Development Trust of Ireland’s National Orthopaedic Hospital and Trustee of The Human Givens Foundation ...

LATEST NEWS

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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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