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In November I will be heading a team of Volunteer Optometrists who will spend two weeks in Zambia working for Vision Aid Overseas. We will be participating in an ongoing programme of training and direct service in and around Kabwe, an old mining town north of the capital Lusaka. This will be my ninth project for Vision Aid Overseas.

Every year VAO provides thousands of eye examinations and good quality spectacles to some of the poorest people in the world, transforming lives. The training programmes ensure that the work is continued after the volunteers return home. The average cost of sending  a volunteer abroad is £1500, each volunteer makes a personal contribution of £750 so this is where you can help balance the books! My aim is to be self funding and to get the fundraising off to a cracking start I will be walking a half marathon on Sunday 13th June at the Langport Festival of Walking - dickie hip and crock knees notwithstanding. Please give generously.

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