In April 2006, CMA expanded the Trachoma Control Program (TCP) to include comprehensive eye care and set up a mobile unit. In addition to conducting trachoma and cataracts surgeries, the Comprehensive Eye Care Services (CES) unit teaches on proper nutrition and hygiene for healthy eyes and rehabilitates the irreversibly blind. The mobile team rotates around the Upper Nile area and has become an icon of hope to many blind people, some of whom walk for more than three months to have their eyes operated on. The team has reached more than 50,000 people so far. Many of those operated on regained their eyesight. Training is also a core component of the CES project. Sudanese nationals, from indigenous non-governmental organizations, are trained as community eye workers, ophthalmic and rehabilitation assistants, and cataract surgeons. In addition, those with irreversible blindness are rehabilitated and lead independent lives. Many of them are also empowered to generate an income by recieving a cow, that, among other things, produces milk for sale.