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Your sight saving gift will help Goma and her sons SEE. And if you give before 24 December, it will be DOUBLED by CBM’s Christmas Matching Gift Fund!

Goma’s grandmother and father went blind because of cataracts. Now she and her two sons Buddha and Chanas are losing their sight too. 

Without immediate treatment, this entire family will go permanently blind. 

Your gift will help families like Goma’s get the urgent cataract surgery they need to see and free themselves from the cycle of poverty and disability. And if you give before Christmas Eve, your sight saving gift can instantly be DOUBLED. 

Your sight saving gift doubled

This has been made possible by a select group of generous CBM donors who have come together to create our Christmas Matching Gift Fund. Thanks to them, every donation to save sight made before 24 December will be DOUBLED – so you’ll save sight for even more families like Goma’s this Christmas. 

Graphics showing how one family helped through one gift becomes two+ families helped when your gift is doubled.

Because they cannot see…

Buddha or Chanas have not been able to go to school. 

“I constantly worry about my children… how they always need help to do even the simplest things. Their future concerns me deeply.” – Goma

Goma can no longer work because of her blindness. And she is trying to raise her boys alone – her husband left when her children were very young.

“Because of my eyesight, I can’t work, and it’s hard to earn a living while caring for two children.” – Goma

Without surgery, they will all go irreversibly blind. 

With the power of your sight saving gift DOUBLED today, you can help change everything for Goma, her children, and so many other families like theirs. 

Graphics showing how one family helped through one gift becomes two+ families helped when your gift is doubled.

One cataract surgery costs just $33

Goma would dearly love to be able to help her children herself. But living in severe poverty and being unable to work, she simply does not have the money for surgery. 

Goma recently discovered why she is blind, that her sons condition is hereditary, that it is completely treatable, and that with surgery, all three of them could see again! 

As Goma said with growing hope…

“Even though I no longer have a husband, I believe that if I can regain my sight, I can manage life independently. I dream of one day sending my sons to the same school as other children. That’s all I wish for.”

All this can happen for this family!

Please will you send your loving gift in time for Christmas, so more families like Goma’s can see again and build a better life for themselves? 
 

Help take away the cataracts that cloud this entire family’s eyes and change their lives forever

But help must come soon. Especially for the children, who need urgent surgery. At their young ages of nine and five, their eyes and brains are still learning to work together. Every day that passes without surgery makes it harder for them to ever see properly again. And if they wait too long, the window of opportunity closes.

Your sight saving gift will be DOUBLED by our Christmas Matching Gift Fund, helping to restore sight to Goma’s family, and other families just like them.

Goma’s love for her children shines

But her hopes for them are fading… how will Buddha and Chanas finish school, realise their dreams and escape the cruel cycle of poverty and disability?

“I often think about how different their lives could be if they received proper treatment. I try to do my best for them every day, but it’s extremely difficult to manage everything alone.” – Goma 

Please will you help them see by making a generous gift today, which will automatically be doubled by our Christmas Matching Gift Fund? 

What your sight saving gift will mean for families like Goma’s going needlessly blind

  • Children can go to school and gain an education
  • Parents can work and provide for the family
  • The entire family can fulfil their potential…
  • …and escape the cycle of poverty and disability for good! 

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16