Into the Light
This item is only available for Canadian orders.Catalogue Number: WPP030
Producer: White Pine Pictures
Subject: Canadian World Studies, Documentary, Global Issues, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2003
Running Time: 46:53
Into the Light documents the heroic work of volunteer Canadian ophthalmologists, nurses and medical technicians who travel to the developing world to teach eye surgery and perform miracles.
Working with the non-profit organization, ORBIS, the medics perform sight-saving surgery aboard the NGO’s “flying eye hospital”, a reconfigured DC-10 aircraft.
In addition, the doctors also work in rural eye care clinics and help establish Eye Banks throughout the developing world. Into the Light chronicles the ORBIS mission to Tanzania and Ethiopia in September, 2003.
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