Save 50,000 Pakistani children from blindness

CURRENT PROGRESS OF THE PROJECT

October, 2013 - December, 2013

The Mobile School Screening Project team of Khyber Eye Foundation visiting various government schools in out skirts of Peshawar, mostly in those areas where no eye care facilities are available for poor students. Finding the refractive errors in poor students at a very early stage and issuing them glasses free of cost in really commendable.

            Refractive errors can be easily diagnosed and measured through a simple and cost effective sight test and corrected with providing a pair of spectacles to attain normal vision. Refraction and spectacle correction is among the most cost effective intervention in eye-care yet millions of people do not have access to this treatment. The Mobile School Screening Project team, bringing smiles on the faces of students and changing their lives.

 THE STORY OF A GIRL IN HER OWN WORDS WHO HAD A REFRECTIVE ERROR, AND HOW HER LIFE CHANGED AFTER VISITING THE MOBILE SCHOOL SCREENING PROJECT TEAM TO HER SCHOOL.

 Miss Huma was in class 9^th when Khyber Eye Foundation team visited her school, Government Girls High School Landi Arbab a rural area on the out skirts of Peshawar. I couldn’t read the writing on the blackboard sine grade 7^th and had to ask my friend Miss. Amna sitting next to me what the teacher wrote, every time Amna told the school vision screening team. When examined by the refractionist, she was diagnosed with severe refractive errors in both eyes: VA in Right Eye being 6/36 while that in Left Eye being 6/60. Like many of her other school mates, she was given free of cost glasses and can now see the writing on the blackboard perfectly fine. The school vision screening team paid a follow up visit to meet Amna and others who were given glasses a year ago. Aman was wearing the glasses and couldn’t stop smiling. “I used to think that my eyes are like that and I have to live with it. But now with these glasses I can read what the teacher writes on the blackboard and am able to take notes on my copy. I am a better student than before.” Amna is one of the 118148 children ² who were screenined for eye health including refractive errors in Peshawar, Pakistan by Khyber Eye Foundation Hospital.   

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