Blind Runners | Documentary Film

Blind Runners is a 23-minute documentary featuring the 2013 Accelerate Ethiopia, an initiative that produced 179 runners in Ethiopia’s first ever trail race, 871 successful sight restoring surgeries, 1 new library to serve 500 primary school students and a 1000-person rural community in the heart of Northern Ethiopia.  Accelerate Ethiopia was a partnership between Himalayan Cataract Project and imagine1day, produced  by Majka Burhardt.

Blind Runners toured Europe and the US in 2016 and 2017, learn more.

By Daphnée Breytenbach and Julien Mucchielli