UVP Eye Surgeon Project
Uganda Village Project, a close partner of CAN, has provided us with an opportunity to help them provide eye surgery. They have located an eye surgeon who provides his services as a donation through a partnership with another charity. UVP needs to train individuals to screen the local villagers to find and schedule appropriate patients so that the eye surgeon can show up and operate on 20 patients at a time. Completed!

Feb 26 and 27, 2009 our Program Manager Kristen and her assistant Patrick Tulabagenyi visited all of the schools at which they trained eye health screeners over the summer, and administered a follow up survey. A common complaint was that when the people referred patients to the screening and surgeries, there were too many people and too few doctors. This fact demonstrates the popularity of this program and the huge impact they are making on eye health in Iganga District. This program has been growing and functioning on it's own! These are photos of some teachers taking the survey.

This program provides cataract surgery free of charge for pre-screened villagers.