WHY DO WE DO IT?

We want to erradicate the avoidable and curable blindness, to strengthen the educational capacities of the teachers in the most disadvantaged countries of the Sub-Saharan Africa.   

There are  7.3 billion people living in the world

253 million suffer from visual impairment

75% of these cases are curable or avoidable

89% live in low- or median-income countries

55% are women or girls

and 2.2 billion problems of near vision

50% of these people do not see simply due to a lack of glasses

The lack of visual health professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa causes that still today children die from visual illnesses, something unthinkable in our Western world for more than a century. Observe and assess whether there are enough professionals who practice in each country where we cooperate: