Vision loss in Kenya

• Population: 55.3 million
• People living with vision loss: 3.9 million

IAPB Vision Atlas. (2025, May 22). IAPB Vision Atlas. https://visionatlas.iapb.org/  

Last updated June 2025

We have been working to prevent blindness and restore sight in Kenya since 2007 and now have programs covering 148 villages across nine districts and counties.

2024 Highlights

In 2024, through the Vision Impact Project (VIP), supported by CBM Christian Blind Mission, we equipped the Loitoktok and Ngong Sub-county Hospital eye clinics and improved accessibility by building wheelchair ramps, renovating water and sanitation facilities, and designating parking.  

Through the VIP in Kajiado County, we learned that, of those screened and referred to the Kajiado East and Kajiado Central vision centres, only 28 per cent were going to the facilities. We worked with county leadership on tracking patients with identifiers and referral forms, and adherence rose to 38 per cent by the end of 2024.  

We rolled out a Hospital-Based Community Eye Health Program with the Nandi County Government, establishing the K 

aptumo Eye Unit to bring eye health care closer to home for those in the project area.*/ 

As a partner in the Kenya Trachoma Elimination Project, led by Sightsavers International, we trained 1,235 community health promoters as case finders; they reached 236,895 people in Narok County through door-to-door screenings (including Napolo, on AR page 15). – Read full 2024 Annual Report here.

Learn more about our work in Kenya in 2022.