經濟及科技類新聞組照金獎作品。 眼睛銀行 Eye Bank 自1995年以來，博拉和桑查在尼泊爾一所醫院工作，致力于用捐贈的角膜幫助盲人重見光明。這項眼角膜捐助計劃在尼泊爾當地還備受爭議，盡管當地政客和社會名流都很支持這一計劃并承諾死后也將捐獻各自的眼角膜。當地宗教和社會文化阻礙著這一計劃的進行。可是，每年捐贈人和成功手術的數量還是在輕微的上升中。如何教育當地老百姓意識到這一計劃可以給更多人帶來光明是當務之急，畢竟當地老百姓才是這一計劃的最大受益者。 Since 1995 Bhola KC and Sankha Narayan Twayan have worked at the Eye Bank in Tilganga hospital, running a program for eye donation that returns sight to the blind. This eye donation program is still controversial in Nepals’ society even though it has been heavily supported by politicians and celebrities who support the program by donating their own eyes upon death. Religion and culture of the society are often in the way of the procedures performed during an eye donation. However, the number of donors and successful surgeries is rising slightly every year. It’s a question of awareness by educating the people to bringing more light on eye donation for the Nepalese, as they are the ones who benefit of from the program the most. 
2010年7月28日上午九點28分，等待接受治療的薩比崔。 7/28/2010 9:28 AM：Sabitri Lamichhane sits in a waiting room at the Tilganga Eye Hospital, waiting for local eye anesthesia followed up by eye surgery during which her own cornea is replaced with the donated one.
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