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Combat Blindness for the Poor

February 12, 2006 Sunday 3PM CT ( listen)
Blindness due to cataracts remains a scourge in the developing world. This hour on Here on Earth, Jean Feraca talks with the head of the Combat Blindness Foundation who's figured out how to make sight-saving surgery available to the poor.

Guest

  • Dr. Suresh Chandra, president and founder of the Combat Blindness Foundation, professor of Opthamology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Richard Langer, attorney

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Soundbites and Music Used in the Program

  • Karsh Kale - "Milan" - From the album Liberation - Six Degrees Records
  • Paban Das Baul and Sam Mills - "Dil Ki Doya" - From the album Real Sugar - Real World Records
  • Paban Das Baul and Sam Mills - "Porojoname" - From the album Real Sugar - Real World Records
  • MIDIval PunditZ - "Forest Dreams" - From the album MIDIval PunditZ - Six Degrees Records


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