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Midlife Crisis: Are You Having One? For $75K, You Can Impact a Nation.

  People do crazy things at midlife. We all know someone. In college, I took a class called “Sleep and Dreaming” by a world renowned Professor named William Dement who said, “Dreams are real while they last, can we say more of life?” He said, we would remember that quote along with a historical side […] → Continue Reading Midlife Crisis: Are You Having One? For $75K, You Can Impact a Nation.

Let Girls Learn-Swaziland Follow Up

                Let Girls Learn—Swaziland Follow Up Last year we started the girls’ education project in Swaziland with one of our artisan groups, Gone Rural. We were able to send our largest check of $10,000 last year. Our team has been busy with Gone Rural in Swaziland and Robin […] → Continue Reading Let Girls Learn-Swaziland Follow Up

Training Liberian Doctors In Ophthalmoscopy

“Teach a woman to fish and she has fish for life”. Isn’t that the saying? We are teaching Liberian doctors how to use the indirect ophthalmoscope like most US eye doctors when you go for an eye exam. It is one of two key pieces of equipment. The other is the slit lamp. We are […] → Continue Reading Training Liberian Doctors In Ophthalmoscopy

Looking ahead in 2016

As we ring in the New Year at Red Rover Ventures, we are very excited by our multiple projects underway to help fight avoidable blindness here in Michigan and abroad. Vision 2020 is an international commitment to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year, 2020, and we are really nervous since we are now one year […] → Continue Reading Looking ahead in 2016

Safari For Sight

Maasai Mara, Kenya, Vision loss affects 285 million people worldwide and 90% reside in developing countries. Vision affects a person’s ability to work, to obtain an education and the ability to take care of their family with dignity.  Vision loss is directly correlated to poverty. Join me in capturing the beauty in nature and the wilderness […] → Continue Reading Safari For Sight

Red Rover Fair Trade Swaziland Gone Rural

Swaziland – Gone Rural

Gone Rural was born in 1992 in Swaziland with the vision to empower women for generations to come. Gone Rural is comprised of over 800 woman artisans. […] → Continue Reading Swaziland – Gone Rural