Optometry Giving Sight recently awarded $25,000 toward Visualiza’s “Guatemala Brillando” national plan to make affordable, accessible eye care a reality for every man, woman, and child in Guatemala by 2032. Adding to past generous gifts, these new monies will help train primary care optometrists to serve Guatemala’s southeastern Jutiapa Region. Guatemala Brillando is a 10-year, […]
The Quiche Eye Hospital and Vision Centers cluster is completed! The Jutiapa Eye Hospital and Vision Centers cluster is this year. Next up will be Morales, Coban, and Huehuetenango. Read our latest Vision for the Poor & Seva Foundation shared annual report detailing progress to date and outlining current needs!
The global nonprofit eyecare organization, Seva Foundation, just released a groundbreaking study in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Using cost-benefit analysis, the report “meticulously and transparently quantifies the return on investment of 21 identified studies across 10 low-and-middle-income countries”. It’s results prove that every dollar spent on refractive error or cataract correction […]
Vision for the Poor secured a $260,000 grant commitment from The Alcon Foundation to help establish a highly-skilled human resources pipeline of ophthalmologists, ophthalmic technicians, and opticians needed to work in six new eye hospitals and 26 new vision centers under development through 2032 as part of our Guatemala National Eye Care Plan. This funding […]
Visualiza operates its social service eye care network based on the Aravind Hospital System sustainability model developed in India. While Aravind is not a nationwide system, it is the largest eye hospital system in the world that teaches a time-tested model of high volume, high quality, and high efficiency care while instilling an attitude […]
