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Doctor Brings Sight Back to Nepal Recalling his youth in a poor country, “I wanted to be able to capture the Dr. Pravin Dugel said he and his wife stories of all the people that I met,” she strive to raise their children to remain said. humble and engaged. Traveling While her father performed overseas with his daughter, Brenna, surgeries, Brenna, with the help of to restore sight to the Nepalese was a Ruit’s daughter as interpreter, took natural progression. photos of the patients and asked Dugel is the managing partner of for their stories. She is planning on Retinal Consultants creating a book with of Arizona, with 25 the proceeds going offices in Arizona, to the Himalayan including two in Cataract Project and Scottsdale. He has had Project SENA. a longtime interest in Dugel operated on human development some patients who and international had traveled as many ophthalmology. as seven days to the outreach camps. Taking his expertise Some walked and to Nepal over the hitchhiked, while holiday season others were carried was part of Dugel’s Elderly Nepal residents had sightmission to provide restoring eye surgery performed by on a loved-one’s back. free eye care to those Dr. Dugel. “You realize when they can’t see, who are in need. Working with Dr. Sanduk Ruit, an ophthalmologist and it’s not just that they can’t see, it’s that founder of the Himalayan Cataract they can’t live,” Dugel said. “They can’t Project in Kathmandu, Dugel and work, they can’t eat. There’s no social Brenna volunteered for 10 days in the support whatsoever. They’re left in a corner, they can’t interact, so these remote areas of Nepal. Brenna, an eighth grader at Phoenix patients are very sickly, very gaunt. Country Day School, said she went The whole family is outcast because to discover more about nonprofits they can’t survive. These are patients and learn from Ruit. While in Nepal, that are not just not seeing, they’re not Brenna took photographs of her living. These are patients that not only need to be fed, they need to be housed. journey. PRAVIN DUGEL
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Brenna Dugel accompanied her father on his charity trip to Nepal and interacted with the locals to learn about their culture.
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