In her first article for a national newspaper, the Countess, whose nine-year-old daughter Lady Louise Windsor was born with the eye defect exotropia, promotes the work of charities which can restore the “miracle of sight” for as little as £10.
The Countess recently returned from a visit to India where she saw first-hand the work of ORBIS, which operates a flying eye hospital in a converted DC-10 aircraft staffed by volunteer surgeons.
The Queen’s daughter-in-law is Global Ambassador for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), and says it is “tragic” that 80 per cent of the world’s visually impaired lose their sight needlessly through preventable conditions.
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