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Sight-restoring eye surgery is routinely performed for less than CDN $30 in developing countries.	Tetracycline ointment stops the spread of trachoma -- an infectious eye disease that scars the cornea irreversibly.	Travelling eye clinics such as this one in Peru provide a rare opportunity for those in remote villages to be seen by an ophthalmologist. Training is an essential part of CBMI's programs to increase the resources of developing countries' health care systems.	Papaya is an excellent source of Vitamin A, without which hundreds of thousands of children are blinded per year. NGO programs deliver papaya seeds to villages so they may grow their own.	Dr. Garth Taylor and Nurse Manager Linda Tranchemontagne are two of the dozens of Canadians who have left family and friends behind for three-week missions on board the ORBIS DC-10 flying eye hospital.	With the help of low- and high-tech devices such as large-print address books and low vision enhancement devices, blind and visually impaired adults are participating in the Canadian economy in ever-increasing numbers, according to the CNIB.

The ORBIS team, lead by Dr. Garth Taylor, proudly displays the Canadian flag that he lugged all the way to China. In keeping with the international focus of ORBIS, the DC-10 crew consists of staff from eleven countries.	After learning new daily living skills through the CNIB, blind and visually impaired seniors can once again enjoy preparing their own meals. Maintaining an independent lifestyle is important to seniors whether they're blind or sighted.	When a child reads one of the CNIB's PrintBraille books with her mother, she is beginning the long journey toward literacy that will forever enrich her culturally and help ensure her economic independence as an adult.	A sighted child may forgo the opportunities of school and education to escort blind adults through the village.	Of the estimated 45 million people in the world who are blind, approximately half are blind because of cataracts. Field hospitals in developing countries restore sight to the cataract blind primarily by training specialized cataract surgeons, who then travel to rural areas, where most blind live in these countries.	Before and After: cataract surgery does more than restore sight - in 48 hours a life is transformed.