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Polluted river water in Ghana has blinded as many as 15,000 children, CBS' Harold Dow told us. Their eyes get infected from mosquitoes that breed there. Dow was accompanying a mission by Our Children International, a medical charity organized by Susan Vallese. After a year of fundraising she recruited 15 doctors and nurses to volunteer a week of their time to staff a clinic in the town of Cape Coast. Daniel Ardakwa and his younger sister went blind when he was eleven. Their mother abandoned them in the woods where they fended for themselves for three months until they were taken in by an orphanage. Now 17 years old, his condition inspired Vallese's activism--but Dow told us that six years was too long: "His eyes are too damaged and cannot be repaired."
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