Vision Aid Overseas

A Christmas Appeal to Support Child Eye Care

Will you help thousands of children to see clearly this Christmas? All donations raised between 27th Nov- 5th Dec will be doubled.**UPDATE: We're almost there ... all donations will be doubled until midnight, 9th Dec** Read more
Target £50,000 Raised so far £47,826
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£15 could pay for travel and subsistence for a school teacher to attend an eye health screening training day

£63 could pay for eye drops to treat 50 children

£125 could pay for transport and fuel costs for the local mobile eye health team to test all the children in one school

£130 could pay for a children’s trial frame

£400 could pay for a full refraction kit for a local mobile eye health team

£5,000 could pay for teacher screening training, eye tests, eye drops, glasses and referrals for an entire school of up to 1,000 children

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After 17 successful years working in French speaking Burkina Faso to improve access to eye care services, Vision Aid Overseas celebrates the conclusion of its programme and looks back on some of the highlights. Read more
World Sight Day in Zambia

This year the Vision Aid Overseas’ Zambia team carried out 5 outreach projects and screened over 891 people in celebration of World Sight Day Read more

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Billion dollars worth of productivity is lost every year because so many people do not have the glasses they need to see properly to do their job.

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Eye tests have been carried out through Vision Aid Overseas activities in the last 12 months

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Pairs of glasses have been prescribed through Vision Aid Overseas activities in the last 12 months

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