Surgeons Organize Fund-Raiser for Honduran Eye Charity

"A group of local eye surgeons who have been traveling to Honduras for more than 20 years to provide free surgery and eye exams for the poor is raising money to renovate the hospital in LaCeiba where they operate," reports the blog Syracuse.com."The doctors have formed a non-profit organization, Honduran Eye and Life Program, and are making plans to hold a major fundraising event this winter....On their last trip the team performed 80 surgeries, including corneal transplants and cataract surgeries, and screened more than 250 patients, providing them with glasses and eye drops. Over the last 20 years the group has done an estimated 800 surgeries." Read more.