By Gillian McVeigh

MONAGHAN based charity, the Christian Blind Mission, will be aired nationally as TV3’s Sinead Desmond visits Rwanda to witness their great work there.

Ireland AM are currently airing the week long series Rwanda in Sight each morning at 08:30am, until Friday. The series follows Ireland AM’s Sinead Desmond as she travels in Rwanda in February 2008.

In the programme, Sinead follows the Christian Blind Mission field operators as they travel to remote villages to help locals affected by blindness.

The show follows the stories of two Rwandans who are being helped by charity.

One story traces the life of three-year-old Jean D’Amour who has been blind from birth.  

Sinead met with his mother Albertine and accompanied them both as they travelled to the Christian Blind Mission’s Children’s Eye Clinic in Kabgayi, in southern Rwanda. 

The second story tells the tale of 90-year-old, who has been blind for 20 years. Sinead visited him at his home in a remote mountain village before accompanying him on the journey to Ruhengeri Hospital in northern Rwanda. There, Christian Blind Mission surgeons performed a successful operation.

Ireland AM then arranged for his family to come and greet him and his reaction on seeing his sons and their children for the first time is truly inspiring.

The Christian Blind Mission has their national offices based in Monaghan Town. Fundraising and operations manger for the Christian Blind Mission told the Post that Monaghan was chosen as an ideal location, due to its proximity to both Belfast and Dublin.