Dear visitors / friends.

On Friday, June 6, 2011 we move our entire technical infrastructure in a new Data center.

After intensive planning - under the focus of a fast and smooth transfer - the exact date for the adjustment has finally been set.
Following time table has been planned for the move:

I. Freitag, June 10, 2011 – 4.00 p.m. (Europe: 10.00 p.m.) – The servers will be disconnected.
During this time the web server will be completely OFFLINE.

II. Saturday. June 11. 2011 – approximately 9.00 p. m. (Europe 3.00 a. m.) - the systems will be gradually brought into operation again.
 
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The facts of Paraguay's blind population

 

… They are POOR because they are BLIND …

 

… They are BLIND because they  are POOR …

 

In our country more than 24,000 people are suffering from blindness.

80%   are preventable or treatable.

In Paraguay 18,000 patients need to be operated each year

 

In our country between 900 and 1,000 surgeries per 1 million inhabitants are carried out.

70 Percent of the population does not have access to Ophthalmology.

34% of the population lives in extreme poverty, lacking basic needs such as food and clothing.

 

So for them the possibility of a surgery is only a dream.

Programa Visión is visiting several places in Paraguay on a regular base.

In addition it performs 10 surgical campaigns with medical and highly specialised equipment in the interior part of the country during a year.

 

The average number of patients in the year 2011 per day:

400 consultations and 20 surgeries

 

Volunteers create a comfort environment by accompanying patients to the place of attention and returning them to their homes again.


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