River Blindness

There was a time when many Africans were helped by the western medicine to preserve their sight. But there was lot more to that story than meets the eye.

If you happen to visit the beautiful building of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, you will notice an unusual sculpture in front of it. A boy and an adult man are walking together, the boy in front of the adult. Both are holding on to a wooden stick — the boy at the front, the adult man at the back. Okay, you’ll think — that is quite cute, but what does it symbolize?