Seva Foundation is an international non-profit organization that supports community outreach and education programs to spread awareness of available eye care services. Seva Foundation’s eye health education programs focus on nutrition, eye injury prevention, and personal hygiene. The foundation has a network of local eye care providers, fieldworkers, female community health volunteers, savings groups, teachers, and others who help spread the word about eye disease prevention and services.
Through a grant awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), RBI builds the capacity of community health workers to administer Primary Eye Care. RBI partners with local government units to provide Primary Eye Care training and screenings nationwide. The organization also partners with local colleges of optometry to work with students for their practicum. Additionally, the program purchases the equipment and low vision devices for a Low Vision Center at the Department of Health Hospital, East Avenua Medicant Center in the Philippines.
The expansion of Physicians for Peace’s vision care program, made possible through a grant awarded by Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), targets elementary school children and indigenous Filipinos in underserved areas. The project focuses on providing vision care screenings, distributing eyeglasses, and training local health workers in basic vision care. In addition, local teachers are trained to identify early warning signs of compromised vision in their students so they can be examined by volunteer licensed optometrists.
Physicians for Peace is a non-profit organization that provides training and support to health care teams in underserved areas worldwide. Volunteers work with local health professionals to fill training gaps, introduce vital skill sets, and ensure local health systems have essential equipment and supplies. The organization supports these regions in creating self-sufficient, sustainable systems with improved health outcomes.
Through a grant awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), P4EC aims to improve the safety, wellbeing, and development of highly vulnerable children, particularly those who are living without adequate family care. P4EC works with the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection & Family, Ministry of Education and other relevant ministries to strengthen national child protection systems. P4EC consolidates previous projects to create opportunities for national expansion and replication.
Through a grant awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), HKI supports the development of organizations delivering eye care and services to children and other underserved populations in Quoc Oai District, Hanoi City, Vietnam. Since its implementation, ChildSight has developed a system for the identification, treatment, and referral of children with refractive errors and more complex eye disorders. Left untreated, refractive errors can cause focus problems, visual impairment, and blindness.
Helen Keller International (HKI) addresses the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition by establishing evidence-based programs and leading research in vision, health, and nutrition. The ChildSight Program, originally created to improve the eye health of children in the U.S., has since been expanded to several provinces in Vietnam and Indonesia. Through their ChildSight Program, HKI aims to strengthen the capacity of the Ha Dong Eye Hospital’s health personnel to provide pediatric eye care services in the Quoc Oai District.
Through a grant awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), GTLI increases access to family planning (FP) services through the integration of FP into their WASH initiative—Building Pastoralist Resilience in SW Ethiopia (BPRN). The primary goals of BPRN are to provide access to clean water, promote disease prevention behavior, and empower emergent women leaders. The FP component of BPRN aims to educate communities on the importance of FP and birth spacing and connect them to government FP services.
Global Team for Local Initiatives (GTLI) works in southwest Ethiopia to facilitate local initiatives in enhancing long-term adaptability and resilience of indigenous communities in adapting to environmental changes. The organization implements projects in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), income generation, and education programs for adults and orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC). GTLI’s primary focus and impact measurement is behavior change.
Through a grant awarded by Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), ChildFund aims to reduce unnecessary separation of children from their families, and to place children outside of family care in nurturing families.
Seva Foundation is an international non-profit organization that supports community outreach and education programs to spread awareness of available eye care services. Seva Foundation’s eye health education programs focus on nutrition, eye injury prevention, and personal hygiene. The foundation has a network of local eye care providers, fieldworkers, female community health volunteers, savings groups, teachers, and others who help spread the word about eye disease prevention and services.