As we work to eliminate avoidable blindness and attain the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including gender equality and good health and well-being, our focus on communities remains key to our success. Our worldwide team of locally-recruited health workers and volunteers gives us ‘insider knowledge’ of a community’s needs and helps us deliver care that… Continue reading Keeping community at the heart of our approach
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Empowering educators
As a teacher working in special needs education in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya, Mary Benzo has seen the difference eye health care can make in the lives of students. As part of our school eye health program, we trained Mary and other school staff to do vision screenings using the smartphone app Peek Acuity. Students… Continue reading Empowering educators
Finding care in the community
When six-year-old Piu began experiencing painful watery, red eyes, blurred vision and headaches, her mother, Sathi, and father, Dipongok, were understandably worried. “I felt sad that others could read and write in class while my child was unable to do that,” Sathi says. Piu, who lives with her parents and four-year-old brother in Bangladesh, began… Continue reading Finding care in the community
Eyeglasses end isolation for student
Remus is a top student in his class, but his inability to see the blackboard isolated him from his peers. “I have always loved school,” says Remus, pictured above standing outside his classroom in Mfantseman, Central Ghana. “I plan to follow in my parents’ footsteps by getting a master’s degree in the future.” For many… Continue reading Eyeglasses end isolation for student
