墨尔本东伊凡诺沃（Ivanhoe）的护士Julie Tyers一直都有一个梦想，就是使埃塞俄比亚的数百名白内障患者重见光明。迪肯大学4000澳元的奖金将帮助她实现这一梦想。
Tyers是迪肯大学护理领袖奖的三个获奖者之一。
该奖项今年首次颁发，表彰了护士们在专业领域以及社区中所做的贡献。另外两名获奖者分别是皇家儿童医院的护士Dianne Crelin以及阿尔弗莱德医院心脏外科病房的护士长Hilary Stedman。
Tyers获得的奖金将用于设立“为了非洲的眼睛”项目，此项目将为Buta Jira 以及Omo Valley等偏远地区的白内障患者免费进行手术。去年，在坦桑尼亚的一个类似项目中，Tyers帮助70位患者重见光明，而此次的项目是继坦桑尼亚项目成功结束的又一善举。
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A $4000 award from Deakin University will help East Ivanhoe ophthalmic nurse, Julie Tyers, realise her dream of providing the gift of sight to hundreds of cataract sufferers in Ethopia.
Ms Tyers was the winner of one of three Deakin University Leadership in Nursing Awards.
The awards, offered for the first time this year, recognise the contribution of nurses to their profession and the wider community. Fellow award winners were Dianne Crelin, a nurse practitioner with the Royal Children’s Hospital and Hilary Stedman, nurse manager of a cardiothoracic surgical ward at The Alfred Hospital.
Ms Tyers’ award money will be put towards establishing the ‘Eyes for Africa’ project that will provide no-cost surgery to cataract sufferers in the remote regions of Buta Jira and Omo Valley. This project follows on from the successful completion of a similar initiative undertaken in Tanzania last year, where Ms Tyers helped to restore sight to 70 people.
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