Polar Plunge '16 Update

Asbury Park Rotary Gives Sight to Six

That’s Why We Plunge

Surgical team at He Eye Hospital, Shen Yang, China (Dr. James Lehman, center)

A few moments of discomfort at our yearly Polar Plunge are well worth being directly responsible for a needy person seeing again.  With that in mind, Traudy announced the results of our 2016 Polar Plunge donation to Tissue Banks International and introduced four of the six people from China who can now see.

It costs $2000 to provide a corneal implant through the TBI program, and Asbury Park Rotary has been only too happy to help for the previous eight years with money raised at our Polar plunge.  Last year $11,000 was raised and, added to $1000 from the year before, six people were helped.  Their pictures and bios are listed below.  We thank TBI for wisely using the fruits of our hard work. 

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1.  Hu Baoting:  64 yr old male with corneal perforation and traumatic cataract
2.  Huang Tijun:  49 yr old male with failed graft for corneal scars
3.  Sun Guifen:  74 yr old female with corneal scarring
4.  Wang Yong Wei:  37 yr old male with keratoconus and failed previous keratoplasty