Caroline Harper: What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases?
Кэролайн Харпер: Что, если бы мы уничтожили одну из древнейших болезней?
At Sightsavers, an international NGO, Caroline Harper leads efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world and fight for equal rights. Full bio
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just for a moment,
instead of outwards,
растут внутрь, а не наружу,
the front of your eyeballs,
you went blind.
to a person who has trachoma.
страдающими трахомой.
from Zambia, he has trachoma.
Памело, он страдает трахомой.
he's going to go blind.
that's passed from person to person
передаётся от человека к человеку,
will scar your eyelids
такие шрамы на веках,
and they turn inside out.
и выворачиваются наизнанку.
the contact with children.
in places like Ethiopia
like this around their necks,
с таким вот пинцетом на шее,
to pluck out their eyelashes.
чтобы выщипывать ресницы.
temporary respite,
временное облегчение,
more vicious than before.
жёсткими, чем до этого.
people in the world
because of trachoma.
as many as 200 million people
около 200 миллионов людей
of a wall of a tomb in Northern Sudan.
стены гробницы в Северном Судане.
in a very remote village,
в очень отдалённую деревню
to take us down into a little tomb.
провести нас в гробницу.
there are tweezers next to it.
do you think that's trachoma?"
ты думаешь, это трахома?»
to the British Museum,
this is trachoma.
were painting pictures of trachoma
in that area today.
в этой местности и в наши дни.
we know how to stop it.
как её остановить.
community have all come together
трахомой, собрались вместе,
that's not always the case
что так происходит не всегда,
for Trachoma Control.
для контроля за трахомой.
a strategy to fight it.
чтобы бороться с болезнью.
by the World Health Organization.
организация здравоохранения.
in somebody's front porch, if need be.
на чьём-нибудь крыльце, если понадобится.
to be transported to the port in-country.
во внутренний порт страны.
of community volunteers
with all that complex logistics.
с этой сложной логистикой.
has a pole like this.
different colors,
you should give somebody,
сколько таблеток нужно дать человеку,
in the UK and in the US.
и в США, и в Великобритании.
was a real problem in Georgia
проблемой трахома была в Джорджии
eye hospital, Moorfields,
глазная клиника Moorfields
how important it is to wash their faces.
рассказываем о важности умывания.
build latrines,
строить туалеты,
their animals from their living quarters
в жилых помещениях,
Sightsavers led an incredible program
запустили невероятную программу
Mapping Project.
картированию трахомы».
to go district by district,
обходить район за районом.
of over two and a half million people.
более 2,5 миллиона человек.
in order to download the data.
через приложение на телефоне Android.
мы смогли построить карты
had a problem with trachoma.
в которых трахома остаётся проблемой.
"Well, does this strategy actually work?"
«Эта стратегия действительно работает?»
that we've made to date.
на сегодняшний день.
they've already eliminated trachoma,
в которых трахома уже побеждена,
or are in the process of
или вот-вот будет подтверждён
have the money they need,
имеющие достаточно финансов
to eliminate trachoma.
they don't have enough funding.
не хватает финансирования,
unless they get more.
that the progress to date may stall.
прогресс может остановиться.
to the Audacious ideas guys,
The Audacious Project,
over the next four or five years
следующие пять-шесть лет,
that we can eliminate trachoma
положить конец трахоме
существенного прогресса
the highest burden of the disease,
особенно свирепствует:
billion dollars' worth of donated drugs.
на более двух миллиардов долларов.
the impact that we'll have --
которых мы сможем добиться,
станут «зелёными».
in Ethiopia and Nigeria.
that are still red.
which are in conflict --
вооружённые конфликты,
where it's very difficult to work.
и где очень тяжело работать.
the strategy and the map.
стратегия и карта.
with the governments
с правительствами стран,
that our program is coordinated
координацию нашей программы
по контролю заболеваний,
if we could do this?
было бы чудесно!
from the whole world.
I just want to share with you
я хочу поделиться с вами
the founder of Sightsavers,
for the whole country,
this is a devastating disease
что эта ужасная болезнь
of individual people.
в прошлом году в Танзании.
for as long as she could remember.
she'd had the operation.
ей сделали операцию.
transformed her life.
and she was free of pain.
и избавили её от боли.
not to be moved by her story.
to go blind in agony anymore.
не мучился и не слеп.
intractable problems in this world.
труднорешаемых проблем.
free from the fear of trachoma.
и не бояться трахомы.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Caroline Harper - Advocate for visually impaired peopleAt Sightsavers, an international NGO, Caroline Harper leads efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world and fight for equal rights.
Why you should listen
Dr. Caroline Harper's ultimate goal is to see herself out of a job. She runs Sightsavers, an organization with global offices that strives to eliminate avoidable blindness and ensure that people with disabilities have equal rights. Up to 75 percent of sight loss can be cured or prevented, and her team hopes to achieve their goals so spectacularly that the organization is no longer needed.
Harper worked in the gas industry until 2002, before co-founding a management business that specialized on turnaround sales of energy companies. But during what she describes as a mid-life gap year, she visited a number of developing countries and felt drawn to international development. "My own family has a lot of blindness, so the mission of Sightsavers really resonated for me," she said. "I have now been its CEO for 13 years, and every year something more incredible happens. The best moments are when I visit some of the countries where we work, sit with people in their communities and realize that what we do has a massive impact. I am so lucky."
Harper is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her work to protect the sight of people in developing countries. Sightsavers works with a range of partners and is supported by organizations such as The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust and UK aid through the UK government's Department for International Development.
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