Girl gets eye surgery help from group of visually impaired

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
Members of the Visually Impaired Cultural Society of Guyana (VICAG) making a donation to Paula Ann Cottam yesterday at their office at Charlotte and Wellington streets. In picture, from left, are Vice-President of VICAG, Linden Stewart, Rudolph Wiggins, Godfrey Norville, Paul Cottam and Paula Ann Cottam.
Members of the Visually Impaired Cultural Society of Guyana (VICAG) making a donation to Paula Ann Cottam yesterday at their office at Charlotte and Wellington streets. In picture, from left, are Vice-President of VICAG, Linden Stewart, Rudolph Wiggins, Godfrey Norville, Paul Cottam and Paula Ann Cottam.

The Visually Impaired Cultural Association of Guyana (VICAG) yesterday donated $20,000 to eleven-year-old Paula Ann Cottam to help her to undergo vitreo retinal surgery in Trinidad.

The girl, who lives in East Ruimveldt, has been visually impaired in the right eye since the age of seven and the disease is now spreading to her left eye.
The surgery which costs US$3,325 has been made possible