José Rosas is a Peruvian farmer who stopped working due to increased blindness caused by cataracts. Many members in his family also have vision issues. Together, they traveled to a medical clinic in Tarapoto to visit SEE International’s volunteer ophthalmologists. After evaluating José, his son, daughter, and sister, doctors decided they could operate on everyone except José's son who had a detached retina that was unable to be repaired. Watch the events unfold in this moving piece from Blue Chalk.
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