VOL : Nominate Dr Ruit for CNN Heroes 2011

Hello guys, time really flies in a blink of an eye.
I remember just last year we made a video to aware and request you all to nominate Anuradha Koirala (Maiti Nepal ) for CNN heroes 2010 . We are still very thankful for your support and kind comments. However, it does not end here.. 2011 nominations are already open and it's time to nominate and vote another deserving figure.
Dr Sanduk Ruit was born in Olangchungola, Nepal, a remote village in Eastern Nepal. So remote the nearest school was a week's walk away. And there were no health posts. Ruit's sister died of tuberculosis when he was 17. This experience led him to become a doctor.

Ruit excelled in his studies and completed a three-year ophthalmology residency at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Science...s in Delhi, India. He then returned to Nepal. In 1980, while working on a Nepal Blindness Survey, he met Fred Hollows who became his mentor. Fred helped make his life goal clear: the restoration of eyesight to people who were unnecessarily blind. In 1986, Sanduk Ruit studied with Hollows for 14 months at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital in Australia.

Hollows and Ruit held the conviction that all people with treatable blindness have the right to restored eyesight; and further, that people in developing countries deserve access to the same quality of care and technology as people in the developed world. They also shared an ambitious vision: the elimination of avoidable blindness in the Himalayan region — driven by local people.

In Australia, Sanduk Ruit learned the latest cataract micro-surgery technique using implanted intraocular lenses. He was ready to take his knowledge to the poorest of the poor. Today he continues to trek through the most remote regions of Nepal conducting eye camps and restoring sight to thousands of the blind.

To learn more about Dr Ruit :
http://www.sandukruit.org/
http://www.facebook.com/kkg.sansar#!/sandukruit

In order to nominate him , here is the link : http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/nom/


Thankyou so much again for your time. We are really hoping you will show the same enthusiasm and support like last year.

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• cnn
• heroes
• 2011

[annarbor2067]

Good work but the voice could have been more louder, and it could have been done in Nepali, English and other languages as well.

Nice work

[TheKksamu]

@annarbor2067 sure agree with you re: loudness. bt the video is in english :) just cus it is used worldwide.

[tarlacnepali]

Nice work

[TheKksamu]

@tarlacnepali thankyou very much

[clickbelly]

Great work guys! I'm sure Dr Ruit greatly appreciates this. We'll throw this clip on Dr Ruit's FB page for the world to see. Should you desire not, please let me know.

BTW, that train behind, is LIRR or an Amtrak?

thnx

kunga

[TheKksamu]

@clickbelly thanks kunga:). m not too sure abt ur query re: train.

[TheKksamu]

@metallup1 thanks :D

[TheKksamu]

@kingracoo thts really kind of you, thankyouuuuuuuuuuu