Cataracts cloud both of this woman’s eyes, leaving her effectively blind. Taveuni, Island Fiji. Photographed November 19, 2009.

I was working as part of a volunteer team doing cataract surgeries to help restore vision to people on the remote outlying islands of Fiji were these services would otherwise be unavailable (and unaffordable).

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