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A week in West Africa

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Jeremy Jalie

Posted: 23 January 2013

Last week I travelled to Freetown and Banjul with Vision Aid Overseas’ Programme Director for Sierra Leone, Kath Stott. We were meeting partners to initiate a new five year programme funded by the Clothworkers’ Foundation. Our main objective was to interview candidates for a new position of Programme Manager – Eastern Province, Sierra…

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Watch Specsavers' recycling video!

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Jeremy Jalie

Posted: 17 October 2012

Our friends at Specsavers have been helping Vision Aid Overseas to promote its spectacle recycling and to explain the new processes we have put in place to ensure we maximise the fundraising and recycling potential of our scheme. Specsavers Television Services have produced a film (a big shout out to Lindsay De Sausmarez and Lenny Lenfestey who filmed…

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Long term volunteering in Burkina Faso

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Jeremy Jalie

Posted: 15 October 2012

Last weekend I interviewed five French optical volunteers at Silmo (an annual optical exhibition) with our International Programme Director, Imran Khan.…

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Inspirational eye care in Ethiopia

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Jeremy Jalie

Posted: 14 June 2012

Today I visited the Grarbet Hospital in Butajira with our International Programme Director, Imran Khan and our Programme Director for Ethiopia, Michele…

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New perspectives on volunteering

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Imran Khan

Posted: 11 May 2012

Welcome to my first blog as Vision Aid Overseas' International Programme Director.A recent study in the Journal of Experimental Optometry by Drs. Matthew…

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Vision Aid Overseas

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Fiona Bruce

Posted: 30 March 2012

I am extremely proud to be writing the first blog post for the new Vision Aid Overseas website: visionaidoverseas.org. I have been an Honorary Vice President…

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