On Saturday I assisted with a visit from the nonprofit
OneSight. Our organization,
Mpilonhle, receives funding from
Oprah’s Angel Network (yes that’s right) and they work with OneSight, hence our matchmaking. The purpose of the OneSight visit was to look into a probable return trip to provide free eye exams and glasses to the 12 schools, and one additional community, we serve. The visit went very well and it looks promising that OneSight will return in August, hooray! First, we visited Nkosibonga High School and the OneSight staff were able to see how our organization’s health and computer education mobile units work.
We then met with about 50 community members and singing/dancing was inevitable.
After this we traveled to the Mdletshe Tribal Authority and met with roughly 65 community members to discuss the potential OneSight service in August. Again with dancing and singing :-) Both communities we visited displayed great energy and were very welcoming.
Finally we went to Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve and saw elephants, rhinos, giraffes, zebras, cape buffalo and one baby crocodile (awww how cute).
I think we wowed OneSight and they will most likely be returning... I mean they loved us, how can they not return?
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