Welcome to the Eyes for East Africa web site

Kwale District Eye Centre - Kenya

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The half year report on the Eye Centre's activities from January to June 2008 is now available, please click here. - Dr Helen Roberts, Medical Director
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. Please click here to view the report covering the Centre's activities in 2007. 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 38,000 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. A short video of work at the Kwale District Eye Centre is available on YouTube.

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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