Eyes of Amhara
"Doctors from San Francisco and Ethiopia treat blindness in remote East Africa"
Synopsis
Intrepid doctors travel to the remote highlands of East Africa and Ethiopia to treat a devastating eye disease called trachoma. Worldwide, forty million people have contracted the disease and eight million have gone blind from it. This documentary follows this special group of doctors as they travel to beautiful and isolated Amhara villages to fight this terrible disease and save vision.
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