Current Affairs Czechs hope to save Afghan boy's sight
Four years ago Czech photojournalist Michal Novotny took a photo that may have given one Afghan - a boy named Ajamal - a fighting chance for a better life. The picture showed the boy - who was then seven - lying in a hospital bed, slowly succumbing to blindness due to malnutrition. When the picture was published in the Czech papers, a Czech reader, Marta Nollova, was so moved that she decided to find a way of helping the boy. This was the catalyst in a chain of events, which eventually led to Czech charity workers in Afghanistan helping to find Ajamal and put together a fund-raising project to save his sight. Doctors - including Czech specialist Martin Filipec - have now travelled to Afghanistan and earlier Jan Velinger spoke with Berkat's Jana Hradilkova, asking her how far preparations for the surgery had come.
Ajamal, photo: Michal Novotny
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