Congratulations to the Canadian blind skier, Viviane Forest, for her second medal of the Paralympics at home in Whistler. Ms. Forest, who only started seriously skiing three years ago, followed her guide Lindsay Debou down the steep pitch of Creekside, winning bronze in the visually impaired giant slalom event. Ms. Forest, 30, has only about 5 per cent vision. She sees blurry vague shapes, having been born with albinism and retinitis pigmentosa. The visual problems particularly associated with albinism arise from a poorly developed retina due to the lack of melanin. Where Seva works in Tanzania there are many children and adults with albinism who suffer from serious visual problems. Many children with albinism are placed by their families in blind schools, not just because they need visual aids, but for safety reasons, because their lives are threatened because of a series of brutal attacks against those with albinism. The following slide show of photographs by Dutch photographer, David de Wit, gives a glimpse of some of the eye care programs that Seva Canada supports in Tanzania and elsewhere in eastern Africa through our partner, the Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology in Moshi. Many of David’s photos were taken in blind schools and annexes and show some of the vision aids that can be used to help children manage in school, such as glasses, large print materials, angled reading stands, hand-held devices such as magnifiers and monoculars (like a little telescope). Other images were taken at the outreach camps held by KCCO to treat a variety of eye conditions including refractive error, eye infections, eye injuries and to find and transport patients who need cataract surgery. Thank you, David, for these wonderful photographs!