20 years of overseas aid

Vision Aid Overseas celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of the optical charity with a reunion dinner at the Burleigh Court Conference Centre.

Displays of previous VAO photography - including members of the 1985 project team to Tanzania who established the charity on their return - stimulated reminiscences among the diners. Pictured are (clockwise from the front) Nat and Shushma Vaja, Kate and Paul Rook, Clive Williams (first VAO treasurer), Helen Williams, Maureen Ellis, Brian Ellis (founder chairman) and Gretta Rainford.