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Kwale District Eye Centre - Kenya

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About us
Eyes For East Africa is the website name of the Kwale District Eye Centre Charity that operates in a poor rural district on the Kenya Coast. The Centre was founded 1993 by a UK trained ophthalmologist now resident in Kenya. The half-year report for July to December 2009 is now available, please click here to view it and to view reports from earlier years. There are many cases of child and youth blindness, mainly preventable and symptomatic of poor diet and parental ignorance. The most common cause of blindness is cataract, for which treatment is by phacoemulsification surgery and the insertion of intraocular lenses. Since 1993, more than 45,000 new patients have been registered; of these over 17,000 have had their sight restored. No patients are refused treatment. Donations are required, particularly to allow poor patients to undergo surgical procedures. The clinic is an official training centre for the University of Nairobi, Department of Ophthalmology. Click here to visit the University's official web site. A short video of work at the Kwale District Eye Centre is available on YouTube.

Sponsor an EFEA supporter running in the Edinburgh marathon 23/5/2010

In September 2009 Dr Moniker Bohm ran the Great North Run and raised over over £3,500 in support of EFEA. On May 23rd 2010 Monni is participating in the Edinburgh Marathon and we hope that you will take this opportunity to sponsor her as she helps to raise funds for EFEA. Sponsorship can either be payed via the Charities Aid Foundation Bank (CAF) or Paypal, details of both can be found on the Donations page. Good Luck Monni.

Making Donations and the Eye Give Shop

You can make a donation on-line or by sending us a cheque.

The 'Eye Give' shop allows you to tell us exactly how you want your donation to be used. You have a choice of eye care items such ranging from £5 for reading glasses, £30 for a cataract operation to £200 to pay a trained nurse’s salary for 1 month. You can make an Eye Give donation on behalf of others, which is ideal for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries and other special occasions.

Please go to the Donations page and the Shop page for further information.

Above: the photographs show just some of the people who have benefited from a donation made on your behalf…..Thank you

Did you know?

Worldwide one person goes blind every five seconds.
One child goes blind every minute.
Of the 45 million people who are completely blind, 90% live in the developing world.
In Kenya the rate of blindness is 10 times that of the western world.
One person in every hundred is totally blind, but 80% of this is preventable, over half is due to cataract.
The ratio of ophthalmologists to the population in Kenya is in the region of 1 : 1 million and they are concentrated in the cities. In UK the ratio is around 1 : 70,000.

The new sign outside the Eye Centre

Above: the new sign that stands by the main road 500 metres from the Eye Centre.

Links to other sites

Click here for a page of links to web sites that provide useful information for eye patients and links to some of our supporters who specialise in helping those with eye problems.

For further information about the work of the Kwale District Eye Centre please browse the site.

Hier klicken zum Download einens Artikels von Dr. Stefan Vogel über die Arbeit des Kwale District Eye Centers (260 KB)

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