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tammy bay faker con tinue to scam those too dumb to know better south of the border there is a christian organization in our area that is seeing to it that their financial supporters are get ting the maximum in terms of bang for their buck this outfit gives a whole new meaning to the words commit ment and efficiency they are ful ly aware that the people lucky enough to live in lands like ours automatically receive all the be nefits and protection in terms of health care that third world peo ples cant even dream of they are called christian blind mission international and their canadian hq is located on stouff- ville road east of mccowan rd while the canadian operation has only been going for 10 years 1988 marks the 80th anniversary for the mission that was started by a german pastor in 1908 to help the blind and the handicapped in third world countries one of the biggest knocks against so many missions pro jects is that they turn a blind eye to domestic need heading out to the remote corners of the earth to force feed their doctrine on poor unsuspecting victims but what cbmi is attempting to do is to take some of the medical technology we have come to take for granted and turn it into mod ern day miracles for people whose lives have been rendered wasted for lack of medical procedures that are so commonplace in our society the little cllinic that cbmi established and now sponsors in taxila pakistan is typical of how from where i live bruce stapley the organization works set up ori ginally by dr norval christi an american consultant to the mis sion it is not uncommon for this little hospital to perform over 200 cataract operations in a single day which is even more remark able when it is added that there is but one team of doctors working there according to cbmi canadas director of operations dave mccomiskey the whole idea is for the staff to work towards training themselves out of a job of the 3200 people involved in their various projects world wide only 200 are cbmi employees when dr christi left pakistan af ter spending 40 years in that coun try he left the clinic in the hands of welltrained pakistani nationals he along with the 26 other ophthamologists cbmi has on staff is free to set up clinics else where in such countries as nepal india and china these clinics that will also man themselves in years to come it speaks so well of the effec tiveness of the mission when you are told that in 1987 alone cbmi was responsible for 113000 catar act operations and you cant help but be im pressed by the genuine sense of commitment as demonstrated year after year by a man like dr christi for whom this kind of ser vice has become a way of life of course as is the case with so many third world medical prob lems blindness is not always cur able by a threeminute operation according to mr mccomiskey there are 500000 incidences annually of nutritional blindness easy enough to prevent if you can feed a child enough vitamin a but incurable once it has occurred 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