Anton Poplett – on the wrong road for the right reason (part 2)
The back door slammed shut as we finished the seventh school on the itinerary of vision testing around the Okavango Delta. Anton explained the next part of our journey would be taking us into a remote part of Botswana that rarely saw tire tracks most of the year. This year saw particularly heavy rains, and […]
Anton Poplett – on the wrong road for the right reason (part one)
Somewhere deep in Southern Africa, far beyond the paved roads of Cape Town or Johannesburg, there is a man by the name of Anton Poplett. He’s there on a mission, and I had to learn how I could help spread the word. As I flew from Seattle to the unspoiled landscape of Botswana, I looked down […]
Overlanding with a mission: improving the sight of children in remote African settlements
According to the WHO, approximately 20 million people in Africa suffer from impaired vision—not including the additional five million or so who are completely blind. Poor vision can have a devastating impact which manifests in many ways, including preventing children from attending school or effecting how families can provide for themselves. In the developed world, […]
Overlanding with a mission: Mission to Heal and Dr. Glenn Geelhoed
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. In a single day one might debride an open fracture, skin graft a burn contracture release sustained by an epileptic patient who fell into a cooking fire while post-ictal, thyroidectomy, hysterectomy, […]
