Ruta de la Luz Foundation and Casa del Tibet Foundation have completed their third time in optical mission to northern India, in which two optometrist and two voluntary optics have practiced 465 reviews and prescribed 340 glasses during a week of work in the Dharamsala area.
MADRID, 21 (EUROPA PRESS)
This mission has given continuity to the actions carried out from 2009, cuyos beneficiarios fueron mayoritariamente niños y jóvenes residentes en los Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) de gopalpur y suja.
For three days, The four cooperators toured the Upper/Dharamsala TCV, Dirty, Chauntra y gopalpur. These TCV are villages of exiled tibetan children, that live in houses of 30 people under the responsibility of an adoption mother, To whom international solidarity provides education and accommodation.
La cooperante Almudena del Pilar ha señalado que le "sorprendió" The maturity of children, porque "asumen responsabilidades" desde pequeños y "todo lo hacen con una sonrisa en la boca". "Hablan varios idiomas: indio, Tibetan, Chinese and, In many cases, inglés", He has pointed out.
Optometrist optics examined patients at different TCV units. "Cuando les ajustábamos las gafas de prueba con su graduación, They changed their face. Su sonrisa demostraba que habían cambiado su mundo borroso por otro nítido", Del Pilar has commented.
For her, This has been its first cooperation project outside of Spain, with which, además de "quedar impresionada" For Tibetan culture, la experiencia le ha hecho "amar más" His profession.
The children, Grateful to cooperators
She further , del Pilar ha explicado que los niños mostraban su gratitud de "forma expresa" y que conservaban en "perfecto estado" Use the glasses that had been prescribed and delivered to previous projects.
In total on TCV, The volunteers carried out 220 reviews, prescribing a total of 153 glasses, being the Upper/Dharamsala in which more refractive defects found. The volunteers corrected myopias average in children who had not taken glasses before.
On the contrary, en Chauntra su labor fue "menos significativa", puesto que otra misión óptica había revisado a sus habitantes "no hacía mucho tiempo".
As explained by the optometrist optic Cuca Marín, el defecto refractivo "más extendido" Among the revised population was myopia. "Me olvidé totalmente de los números, of budgets. Me reconcilié con la profesión", He said.
In addition, He has assured that he does not forget the moment in which he adapted a prism to a child and stopped seeing double. "No se lo podía creer", He has pointed out, destacando la "espiritualidad de los tibetanos, immersed in their culture, que aman y defienden por encima de todo".
Cooperators received support from TCV staff and local volunteers who helped with logistics and also acted as interpreters when reviews were practiced to children who did not speak English.
In the second part of the Foundation's stay in India, The volunteers carried out 118 reviews, They prescribed 75 glasses and delivered nine premonized. Over there, The most frequent visual defect among those reviewed was the presbyopia, since much of the population strengths the view working in very short distances, Drawing and embroidered.
The last day of optical mission, Before return to Spain, They worked at the Delek Hospital, that does not have optics or ophthalmologists. The cooperators graduated in the hospital nursing, They practiced 130 reviews, They prescribed 41 graduated glasses and delivered 53 Premintadas. In this case, Most patients were old from a nearby residence.
