...I must mention that my connection with the importance of this particular work - its emotional, economic and profound impact on one's life - is based on personal experience. I know to a small degree how this sort of trauma can impact on one's life.

I was never able to really understand how my 'celebrity' was ever going to feel anything but frivolous to me until I heard a staggering statistic. Eighty percent of all blindness in developing countries is either preventable or curable."