Save 50,000 Pakistani children from blindness

CURRENT PROGRESS OF THE PROJECT

APRIL 2014 TO JUNE, 2014

School health programs have been administered in developed countries of the world since a long time.Realizing their importance, many developing countries have also taken initiatives to introduce national school health programs in their education system. Comprehensive school health programs for children include nutrition and growth, oral hygiene, de worming etc.

The link between good eye health and learning capabilities of children, their improved quality of life and brighter future is well established. Consequently ensuring good general and eye health in schools is as important as delivering them quality education. It is critical that eye health as part of the general school health programs is integrated into the public education system.

Children can be effected by arrange of eye diseases that can lead to visual impairment in childhood or in later years of life. Many of these diseases are preventable or treatable.

The project team of Khyber Eye Foundation this time started its project in Charsadda district. During the period, the team screened 19753 students for refractive errors and issue them medicine / glasses free of cost. So far the the affected students have been issued glasses / medicine worth of US $ 29340/-

   The story of a girl who had refractive error and his life changed after visiting by the project team to her school.  

Laiba is a student of class 4 and studying government primary school prang gari shehbaz khan Charsadda. The project team once visited her school and found that Laiba has a refractive error since long. When asked she replied that she has a vision problem since long and her father could not get her eye sight checked due to meager source of income. When asked from Laiba that how could she write her class work from black board, she replied that she use to write from her friend's copy. Optometrist of a team did refraction and found out that her vision was 6/60 in right eye and 6/36 in left eye. She was issued with glasses and now her vision is 6/6.

Khyber Eye Foundation request our donors to continue to support our project and donate maximum so that poor school going students are benefited and can be issued with glasses / medicine free of cost and also get a opportunity to lead healthy life.  

Funding Information

Raised                                                           $ 1,908

Remaining                                                    $ 47,592

                                                           Current progress of the Project

                                                           January, 2014 to March, 2014

Children are the most precious wealth of any nation. A country’s progress and development depends on the health and education of its children. Good health is essential for a child’s development. Without good health including eye health, children can be deprived of educational opportunities and bound to have an impaired quality of life. Health education in schools helps children to acquire improved knowledge, attitudes and practices required for leading healthy life. Children in turn once made aware of health issues, act as active agents of change in their families and communities. The importance of addressing child health in schools therefore cannot be ignored.

The Mobile School screening project team of Khyber Eye Foundation has been visiting various government’s school to find out refractive errors in students and issue them medicine / glasses free of cost so, that they should lead a healthy life and their bright future ahead. MSS team has so far issued spectacles and medicines to affected students worth of US $ 25194/-

 THE STORY OF A BOY IN HIS OWN WORDS WHO HAD A REFRACTIVE ERRORS AND HOW HIS LIFE CHANGED AFTER VISITING  THE MOBILE SCHOOL SCREENING PROJECT TEAM TO HIS SCHOOL

Mr. Raj wali was studying in class 7^th, when Khyber Eye Foundation team visited his school, government high school Pishtakhara Pabbi District Nowshera. I could not read the writing on the Black Board since grade 6^th and had to ask my desk mat what the teacher has written on the Black board. I was facing lot of problem while reading on the black board and the same complaint I made to my father, but he could not take me to the hospital due to poverty. One fine morning Khyber eye foundation eye screening team visited our school and check my eye sight, I was diagnosed with severe refractive error in both eyes, VA in right eye being 6/24 while in left eye being 6/60, like other students I was given free of cost glasses and now can see the writing on the black board perfectly. The project team paid a follow visit and met all those students including me who were given glasses a  year ago. With glasses now I can read what the teacher writes on the black board and am able to take notes on my copy. I am a better student than  before. I am in one of the 129289 children who were screened for eye health including refractive errors in Peshawar, Pakistan by Khyber Eye Foundation.

Khyber Eye Foundation request our donors to continue to support our project and donate maximum so that poor school going children are benefited and can be issued with glasses / medicines free of cost.

Funding Information

Raised                                    $ 1,855

Remaining                             $ 47,645