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Blindness Prevention Project Ideas
To assist you in planning eye care or
avoidable blindness projects, we present the following ideas:
- Organize an eye camp or eye clinic where economically disadvantaged
people can come for free eye care.
- Provide financial support to an eye camp, eye hospital or cataract
surgery project either in your local community or overseas.
- Undertake a campaign to collect used eyeglasses and donate them to
an organization that will distribute them to those in need.
- Undertake an eye donation pledge campaign in y our community.
- Sponsor a seminar in your community on preventable blindness.
- Support a project that alleviates Vitamin A deficiency in children -
a leading cause of blindness.
- Organize a vision-screen campaign in your community or at a local
school.
- Train ophthalmic nurses to perform lid surgery for trachoma and
provide basic treatment and other minor operations.
- Train ophthalmic nurses to detect glaucoma and refer individuals to
ophthalmologists for care.
- Focus on River blindness prevention by use of Mectizan tablets.
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