“We want to teach locals how to care for their own people,” Kauhane says, an initiative that includes training local doctors in addition to establishing self-sustainable eye clinics in places where HEF has established an ongoing presence. The foundation also utilizes telemedicine and awards traini...
Learning throughout life, and espe- cially literacy, needs to be part of this transformation (UNESCO-UIE 2010), but providing other basic infrastructure elements (water wells, fuel supply, health clinics, roads, etc.) is also necessary, not to speak of micro-credit, improved employment and ...