UVP - Eye Repair and Rehabilitation
This project will train a Village Health Team representative in five separate villages to recognize and diagnose various eye problems. A visit by Sight Savers International (SSI) will also be sponsored in order to ensure the newly trained village eye specialist is connected to Sight Savers. The funds will also support a screening event for each village to identify surgically correctable eye health issues, and transport for patients from those events to a surgical facility.

Through this Eye Care Training program Uganda Village Project (UVP) hopes to restore vision to members of some of Iganga, Uganda's most disadvantaged villages. Funding Completed. Awaiting Final Project Completion Report. Click on this need's title to see some of the results.

Uganda Village Project (UVP) has done eye outreaches at four of their five healthy villages as of February 21, 2010, treating a total of 130 people. The last village will have their eye outreach on Friday February 26. SightSavers International has funded an extra eye camp at Iganga Hospital in March or April, and between that and one other eye camp at another, close by Health Center, any of the UVP Healthy Villages villager needing further care will receive it by April.

Go to this link to read a blog about what is being done: Eye Care Blog

The last three pictures are from the eye care outreach at Butongole.