Khan joined the charity last month and will lead its overseas programmes, working closely with VAO's professional volunteers. Unusually, he is an optometrist with wide experience of international development and a CV that reads like a travel guide.
Khan's first exposure to international eye care was as a second-year optometry student at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 2000 when he joined a mission to Guatemala organised by the US-based agency Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH). It was a trip that would lead him to take part in similar projects in many countries around the world. 'Basically from that moment I was hooked,' he explains.
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