Global Health Progress

The school in Ongata Naado, a small village in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, is bursting at the seams with a 50 per cent jump in enrolment over the past year. It’s not due to a baby boom or a sudden change in attitudes to education – it’s because the once-parched community finally has a safe, reliable source of abundant water.

The new water well is just one small component of an ambitious development project spear-headed by Canada’s Operation Eyesight. The project’s ultimate goal is to eradicate trachoma, one of the world’s leading causes of unnecessary blindness, from the entire country. But along the way, other unintended benefits of the project keep cropping up.

Read the full release on the Canadian Newswire site >>