Eye health

There are more than 2 billion people worldwide with visual impairment. Most of those affected live in poor countries and do not have the means or opportunities to prevent or treat eye disease. As a result, they remain poor and dependent on external help. With preventive eye hygiene, many impairments and blindness can be avoided. Blindness could be reversed through medical interventions (e.g. cataracts).

Intention

Preventing and, where possible, reversing impairments and blindness of children

Measures

Prevention

In the poorest countries, children suffer from painful eye infections, like blinding trachoma, river blindness and others, because their families can’t afford basic medicine. This steals their sight and leaves them permanently blind. This pain and blindness can be stopped by providing

  • Medication
  • Community health care
  • Sanitary environment

Reversal

Children are needlessly blind because they’re trapped in poverty. Their families can’t afford sight-restoring surgery. Very often blindness cannot be reversed due to the lack of surgical instruments, not allowing surgeons to proceed with the urgently needed treatment. Blindness can be reversed by providing

  • Sight-Saving Surgery
  • Sight-Restoring Surgical Instruments

Hoffnung für alle Menschen supports eye health projects of Hope & Healing International.

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