Gift of sight to 247 blind people with Generosity of Walsall Residents
A group of 10 sponsored local Walsall residents both Christian and Muslim , completed the walk from Walsall Town Hall on Saturday 25th June to Birmingham Bull ring via the canal network The total raised was £6211 which will directly pay for 247 patients in Northern Pakistan to receive sight restoring cataract operations at the eye camp planned in the flood victim area of Pakistan in September run by the local charities Midlands International Aid Trust ( MIAT) supported by Oak Tree Trust.
‘ We have delighted to have raised over double our target £2500 to pay for 100 cataract operations We will now restore the sight of 247 people in one of the poorest part of Pakistan. They will then be able to resume work to support themselves and their families’ said Mohammed Aslam MBE chair of MIAT.
‘ The vision of the joy expressed by the patients at previous eye camps when their bandages are removed after their operation sustained us during the walk and the aftermath of nursing sore feet’ said Ian Robertson chair of Oak Tree Trust and one of the walkers.’
Using volunteer eye surgeons who travel at their own expense to Pakistan MIAT have been able to run a number of very successful eye camps in Pakistan over the past few years. We can demonstrate with photographs of individual patients all those who have received these free operations ,with 100% of donations from the generous people of Walsall going to provide the only cost of the operation which are for a blood test, eye drops and dressings.
Further information from
Mohammed Aslam MBE Chair of MIAT telephone 01922 442861 and 07501101342 at 92 Wednesbury Rd Walsall WS1 4JH
