“We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes — and we must.”
Jimmy Carter, Nobel Lecture
“We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes — and we must.”
Jimmy Carter, Nobel Lecture
77-year-old Steven Ocopan recalls the devastating toll river blindness had on his community as a child. Hear his story and learn how transmission of this painful disease has been successfully interrupted in the region.
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