Short Hills eye surgeon will embark on surgical mission to Ecuador
PRESS via NJ.com: Short Hills eye surgeon will embark on surgical mission to Ecuador Dr. Michael Farbowitz, eye surgeon and medical director of Short Hills Ophthalmology, will be travelling to Guayaquil, Ecuador this June as a participant in a cataract surgical and medical mission to treat the impoverished residents in that location. The mission, organized...
Annual Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission to Countries in Need
Press: Stony Brook Medicine today Annual Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission to Countries in Need Patients eagerly await their eye patches to be removed to see what their newfound vision will be like. Three Stony Brook University School of Medicine alums are part of a nonprofit organization called A Promise to Peru, Inc. that is...
Press: AIRLINK/JetBlue -Rural Medical Outreach Peru
Source: airlinkflight.org The World Health Organization estimates 39 million people are blind and 246 million have severe visual impairment: 90% of those affected live in developing countries. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in middle and low-income countries, but 80% of all visual impairment can be avoided or cured. This cure can come in the...
3rd International Health Symposium
Physicians from A Promise to Peru, Inc were invited to participate in the ” 3rd International Health Symposium in the Sacred Valley, Peru” at the Urubamba Hospital on July 3, 2014. The Lecture symposium was organized by Peruvian physician Dr Francisco Morales. It was a three day lecture symposium working with the Peru Health Outreach...
Learn About Our Organization
Founded in 2011, in just four short years, A Promise to Peru has delivered much needed cataract surgery and medical care to almost 7,000 residents of remote Peruvian villages, many of them now with restored vision…some even enjoying normal eyesight for the first time ever. Whether it is through a site restoring surgery or administering...
June Mission Prep
Getting prepared for our mission this June! The eye supplies from Alcon have arrived from Texas. The Students are hard a work preparing and organizing. Folsom City Host Lions Club and Lions District 4-C5 packed up their donation! Thank you. Photo via ciro morales
Thank you!
A Promise to Peru thanks the following for their support for 2011, 2012 and 2013 Cataract Surgical and Medical Missions: The past and present participants of the missions…the physicians, nurses, and other health related professional, medical students and the families who devoted their time and energies to join us in Peru these past summers: ...
It is with great pleasure that we bring you the second installment of our quarterly newsletter. FriendsNE has been busy continuing our projects in Nicaragua, Peru and Haiti and building relationships within the communities we work. We are grateful for the abundance of hard working volunteers who enable us to put community initiatives into action....
Cataract Surgical Mission – Urubamba Peru
This will be the first year that we will have a cataract surgical mission for one week in Urubamba from July 2-6. This effort has been coordinated by Debra Messina, MD. We are working with the Peruvian Ministry of Health to provide free cataract surgery to those patients who are truly indigent and have advanced...