Lions Service Club

Go back to the beginning and the arrival in Mochudi in 1964/5 of Mr PCG Adams of the Royal Commonwealth for the Blind. I am not at sure why Adams picked on Mochudi as his base but from there he travelled far and wide to assess the extent of need, and its nature.

Inevitably, he also inter-acted closely with Dr Gunther Teichler, then Superintendent of the DR Hospital. The result was that the Royal Society was able to use the information about the country’s  situation described in Adams’ report to get Teichler to London to do a one-year course in ophthalmology. I wish I knew more about that arrangement because it shows yet again how a small non-government initiative can have such a far-reaching outcome.