Our stories

Dr Lucilla Ah-Ching Sefo is Samoa’s only ophthalmologist and Head of the Ophthalmology Department at the Ministry of Health.

Sau, a devoted teacher and mother from Samoa, suffered from avoidable blindness due to bilateral cataracts. Now, Sau can finally see her children again.

Sight-restoring surgery allowed Paketi to return to his beloved taro garden and regain independence. Now he’s an eye care advocate.

Thanks to cataract surgery at PEI, Varsila is now able to see all her grandchildren grow up.

In Papua New Guinea, four adult siblings had been living with blindness for years. Rose and her brothers Bulu, Lipi and Disem.

After five years of blindness, Philomena can finally see her family again — including the great-grandchildren she had only ever known by voice.

On his 10th birthday, Meli received sight-saving cataract surgery.

Salome, a 53-year-old mother of four from Solomon Islands life changed when her vision began to deteriorate.

Masi, an eight-year-old boy from Fiji, has had an avoidable blindness in both eyes for nearly his whole life.

Cataract surgery restored Ivan’s sight and with it, his sense of purpose.

Dr Elenoa’s journey into eye care began at Lautoka Hospital, where she started working in ophthalmology.

Vasemaca has been unnecessarily blind in her left eye since she was just three months old.

Siafy had cataracts in both eyes for over thirty years. Thanks to sight-saving surgery, he can go back to providing for his family.

Zaydan, a brave 6-year-old boy from Fiji, had to travel far from home and go through two eye operations in just three days, plus weeks of recovery, to get his sight back.

Dr Epeli is from a small coastal village in northern Fiji. Thanks to our incredible community of supporters, he has found his passion in eye care.

“This surgery will change my life. The eyes are the lights to life.” – Rupeni