Trailer 1 - 37 Million and Counting - River Blindness

This is a trailer for our documentary "37 Million and Counting". African river blindness (onchocerciasis) is a disease caused by a parasite worm that plagues 37 million people worldwide. It is the second leading cause of infectious blindness and the majority of cases are found in Africa. More information can be found at www.37millionandcounting.com

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Onchocerciasis
• african
• river
• blindness
• documentary
• Tanzania
• parasite
• worm
• onchocerca
• volvulus
• nonprofit
• grassroots

[quakepapi]

Africa needs to unite, so many countries in Africa causing different policies which result to having no results.

[LENinouie]

i didnt sleep for 3 days and its already feels like dying..woah!!i rather die than can't sleep.

[yamilbabyblue84]

OMG i read about this at school n i couldnt believe it. there are towns filled with adults like this and the children have to quit school to take care of their parents. how sad but i will do something about it; even if it seems like a small

grain

[fckyamoma]

shit im to lazy to give a shit about my own economy

[martc491]

well why don't YOU go and help them do it.

[fckyamoma]

ya see if they go to school and get an education get jobs move up the job ladder build buildings create more jobs create sanitary living conditions then keep giving to the community and keep that cycle going soon they will end the 3rd world aspect of it all

[MCMisterE]

Excellent