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Eyecare Mission in the Jungles of Guatemala

The team of 21 after a 13 1/2 hour very difficult drive arrived deep in the jungles of central Guatemala to give Eye care to people who have never had the opportunity to have any type of eye care. Indigenous tribes of the country were living where they have lived for centuries. We were able to give surgery to 70 of them and 660 eye exams. Most of them could only speak the tongue they had spoken for centuries. So it was necessary to have people who could speak both English, Spanish and the native tongue.

The patients were transported, some as much as from 3 hours away from where we were, doing surgery in trucks that were furnished by the local contractor who built an electric dam in the area for power.

The team was transported each day, 21 of us in 4, four-wheel drive pickup trucks necessary because of the terrible roads through the mountains, 30 minutes each day. The patients each day that came, the poorest of the poor of the country, we’re so very gracious for the exams and glasses given to them and the surgery that they never would have been able to afford if we had not came.

Pictured are: The Team, The patients, The truck carrying 50 patients and their helpers, 3 VOSH OD’S and 3 VOSH / Eye For God Ministries Ophthalmologists doing exams and surgeries.

Thank you very much VOSH Southeast and Eye For God Ministries from U. S. Un. and the Guatemalan people for giving your time and coming to help these people in such need.

We are still in need of 2 Nurses and 2 Optometrist for our October trip to Jutiapa.
October 12th though 18th. Please contact Glenn Lashley below if interested.

Blessings,

Glenn Lashley
ŒIL POUR LES MINISTÈRES DE DIEU & VOSH S/E
Medical Mission coordinator
1835 Mercers Hamac Ct
Deland, En 32720
Cellule – (386)-846-629
gmlashley99@gmail.com

JUTIAPA GUATEMALA MISSION NEEDS SOME HELP!

JUTIAPA GUATEMALA NEEDS SOME MORE HELP!

2 OPTOMETRIST and 4 NURSES needed for this EYE MISSION.

If you can come Please Call, Text or Email me A.S.A.P.

Everyone Needs to Be at the Guatemalan Airport at 1 P.M. Sunday Oct 12. to catch the Bus. Your Flight back to the USA needs to leave after 12 Noon. Saturday Oct. 18 .

OCTOBER 12 SUN to 18 SAT

JUTIAPA Guatemala About 4 HR drive South East of Guatemala City.

JUTIAPA is a nice town near the El Salvador Board. With most of the convince we have her in the U,S,Un,. We will be staying in a nice Hotel across the street from where we will be doing EYE Surgerry & Exams.

Transportation, food, lodging provided. You just need to purchase airfare to GUA, Guatemala-ville. and Return to U.S..

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT ME .

BLESSINGS,

Glenn Lashley
386-846-6293
gmlashley99@gmail.com

Lima Peru Mission

On July 9 we were in a school in Tablada de Lurin in Lima with 15 students from the San Fernando Institute, 600 students were attended in visual acuity and then the refraction began.

Gladys Aguayo

Optometrist Needed!

Optometrist needed for

Oct. 28 To 31, 2025 in Kingston, Jamaica to do eye exams and glasses and surgery follow up. Please call Paul Connor at 330-760-7877.

Donation of Readers to Uganda

To: VOSH Southeast from Brenda McElroy,

Thank you for your donation of readers for our trip last year to Uganda. People were able to try on glasses to find what strength suited them best and receive a Bible. We don’t think about not being able to read the word for ourselves. This was truly a blessing to so many.

Brenda McElroy
Rehema Health Foundation
www.rehemahealthfoundation.org

VOSH/SE supported Mission Trip to CUBA!

VOSH / Sud-Est (V/SE) supported a trip by the CFP Cuban Network to Santa Clara, Cuba February 18 through 25 of this year. Santa Clara is the fifth largest Cuban city, population about 350,000 and close to the geographic center of the island. One of the main purposes of the trip was for each of the thirty team members to carry in a suitcase full of OTC medical goods, The OTC medicines, such as Advil, Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Aspirin and other common drug store medicines, were used to restock Cuban church medical cabinets since OTC medical goods are in super short supply in Cuba.

Two CFP Team members active in a church in Winter Park, Floride, who are also active VOSH/SE members, were aware of anecdotal reports concerning the almost toal unavailability of single vision readers for retired and pensioned Cubans. These two V/SE members thought this trip would be a good occasion to “test the waters” and determine whether it was really difficult to obtain single vision readers in Cuba today. The V/SE members convinced the team to take 600 pairs of recycled readers for distribution at church clinics. These readers were processed by dedicated volunteers at the V/SE facility in Ocala, Floride, which is widely known in VoshWorld as “The Tin Hut”.

We are happy to report that this effort could not have been more successful. Le 600 pairs were all skillfully dispensed by Cuban volunteers who staffed six church-run clinics throughout Central Cuba. Currently, most Cuban government medical clinics are able to do refractions and write prescriptions but various economic and social problems have produced complex situations which largely prevent the government distribution of glasses and there does not seem to be availability of affordable reading glasses in the marketplace, especially at prices affordable to people who are unemployed or on pensions. There appears to be a great present need for efforts similar to the recent V/SE supported mission and we intend to do our best to see such efforts are made to make sure that deserving people in Cuba have access to reading glasses. Look for news of similar missions to Cuba soon.

P.S. If you were expecting pictures, please talk to the guy who was so excited when our plane landed at Miami International that he left his cell phone on his plane seat when he got off.

Thanks for reading this. Stay tuned for more Cuban news.

John Gehrig, Vice President for Development,, V/SE

Guyana Mission

Nous vous invitons à envisager un don à Vosh Southeast pour le 2025 Guyana, Clinique d'Amérique du Sud.

Du 17 au 27 juillet, Vosh réalisera sa première mission de soins oculaires de contact aux îles reculées de la Guyane, South America. Une équipe de professionnels dévoués - y compris un ophtalmologiste sur place, optometrists, opticiens, et le soutien de la clinique - apportera des services essentiels aux communautés isolées où les soins sont indisponibles.

Cette mission lancera ce que nous espérons deviendra un partenariat à long terme pour les soins de vision durable.

Avec l'aide de l'hôte local Dr. Kemol Roshan et les bons émis par le gouvernement pour les lunettes, Nous sommes prêts à servir, mais nous sommes encore à court des fonds nécessaires pour rendre cette mission qui change la vie possible. Votre don vous aidera à apporter une vue et un espoir à des centaines qui n'ont jamais eu accès à des soins oculaires appropriés. Plantons ensemble les graines de vision et de partenariat.

Please donate at the VOSH Southeast Website

https://voshsoutheast.org/

Je vous remercie!