We are proud to announce that The Grameen Green Children Eye Hospital has served over 20,000 people since it’s opening in May 2008. It has performed over 1,000 cataracts surgeries, enabling the blind to regain their sight and transform their lives. We’d like to praise the hard working staff in Bangladesh and congratulate them on the progress so far. In 2009 the hospital will continue to grow and increase the number of surgeries to an eventual target of 10,000 per year.
Michelle Hoover from Denver has been very active in recruiting people to our Facebook cause page. So far she has recruited 127 people to our cause. Thank you Michelle! We now have a total of 5,680 members on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, please help us spread the word by recruiting your friends! Click here to visit our page. We’ll feature anyone who manages to recruit 100 people.
Bangladeshi students sponsored through Grameen Shikkha (Education) have achieved fantastic exam results in 2008. In higher secondary finals 34 students achieved an A+ grade, 47 an A grade and 14 an A- grade. In secondary finals 59 students achieved an A+ grade, 59 an A grade and 15 an A- grade.
The Green Children Foundation is proud to have sponsored some of these hard working students. For more information on Grameen Shikkha, please click here.
Check out the Whole Foods website to read a recent blog about the inspiration behind our foundation work.
The Grameen Green Children Hospital has now served over 4000 patients and performed almost 200 sight-giving cataract operations. It has been a very successful first two months. Now the hospital will begin ramping up it’s operations, with the aim of performing more and more cataracts operations every week. Thank you to every one who contributed to this project, we are truly grateful for your support.
The Green Children are proud to announce the support of D’Addario, the world’s leading supplier of guitar and bass strings. The Green Children are now official endorsers of their wonderful products.
D’Addario are also active in the foundation world, committed to inspiring and assisting the growth and appreciation of music throughout the world, particularly in relation to youth education. To visit their foundation website, click here.
Gabriel Cooney joined us during our recent trip to Bangladesh, he took some stunning photos which you can see here. Check out his website for more information and examples of his work…
The world of Gabriel Cooney’s award-winning photography ranges from the intimate intensity of portraiture to the powerful evocations in his landscapes. He was first drawn into photography as an eighteen-year-old on the streets of Morocco. Since then he has earned acclaim for his penetrating portraits of artists and writers, as well as farm workers and schoolchildren. Working with only natural light, Cooney finds the hidden nature of his subjects. His assignments for non-profit and academic institutions have taken him from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Rio de Janeiro, from Italy to Cuba, and Harvard to Oxford.
The Grameen Green Children eye hospital was opened on the 12th of May and will now work towards serving 50,000 people per year! The Green Children traveled to Bangladesh for this incredible event and opened the hospital together with Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this wonderful facility. Your generosity will give thousands of blind poor people their sight back.
Click here to check out some photos from the event.
Cody Johnson (pictured below) and Bradley Ray Gebben are our first featured film makers. Please check out their thought provoking film ‘Speak’ which was part of the Effingham film festival in Illinois.
Why did you make the film?
Cody – “I made this video to hopefully get people to think about standing up for themselves and to get people to speak out, for themselves, and for everyone around them. Also to get people to not be afraid of speaking out, to speak out for what you believe in.”
Bradley – “The reason I made the film was to visually say to the many students in my school that we need to speak out for what we believe in.”
Tell us about something positive you see in the world…
Cody – “Something positive that I see in the world is that the world can change, and it can change for the better and the world can improve economically and peacefully.”
Bradley – “One thing I see positive in the world is that there are people fighting to make it a better world for everyone else and as long as there is someone trying to make the world a better place than there is always hope for change.”
Are you a film maker who wants to say something about the world? Please contact us, we’d love to feature you.
