Où nous travaillons et comment nous le faisons
We operate in countries with low development indices and a high prevalence of preventable blindness, where the most vulnerable populations cannot access eye-health services, increasing the cycle of poverty in these regions.
A person who cannot see well cannot work, cannot receive proper education and may face discrimination, especially if she is a poor woman.
Our goal is to provide these countries with infrastructure and trained local personnel so they can help people with vision problems on their own, contributing to reducing this cycle of underdevelopment.
We collaborate through several lines of action
Actions that change lives
International Congresses for the Prevention of Blindness in Low-Resource Countries
PROJECT: Spain. 2005 – Present.
Since 2005, Vision Mundi has organised every two years the largest Congress for the Fight Against Blindness in Low-Resource Countries held in Spain. We have already held nine editions, and [...]
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Ophthalmology Centre in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
PROJECT: Bolivia. 2004.
I Our project is located at Hernández Vera University Hospital, situated in Villa Primero de Mayo, one of the most popular neighborhoods in the city. It belongs to the Spanish [...]
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Ophthalmology Centre in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
PROJECT: Burkina Faso. .
Burkina is the eighth poorest country in the world. We have trained two ophthalmologists, an optometrist, a biomedical engineer and a laboratory technician. The new facilities include consulting rooms, an [...]
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Optical Centres in Bombali and Koidu, Sierra Leone
PROJECT: Sierra Leone. October 2021 – November 2022.
Vulnerable people in the seventh poorest country in the world can now obtain eyeglasses. We have funded the training of four local optometrists (almost half of the optometrists in the [...]
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Training Project for Teachers, Lusaka School of Optometry, Zambia
PROJECT: Zambia. April 2021 – March 2022.
The School of Optometry at Levy Mwanawasa University in Lusaka (Zambia) is relatively new, with less than 10 years of existence. For this reason, it needed to improve the training [...]
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Childhood Blindness Reduction Programme
PROJECT: Bolivia. 2010.
Since 2010, a programme for the prevention and treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity has been carried out in the region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, which has 3,100,000 inhabitants. We have [...]
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Port Loko Optical Centre
PROJECT: Sierra Leone. January 2023 – April 2025.
Collaborating with Vision Action to increase access to eye care, including the prescription and dispensing of glasses, in the largest district of the Northern Province, Port Loko, Sierra Leone.
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Training of Paediatric Ophthalmologists in Senegal
PROJECT: Senegal. January 2020.
Monitoring project for community optometry and training in paediatric ophthalmology and optometry at Abass Ndao Hospital in Dakar, in collaboration with our partner NGO Ocularis. Strengthening the training capacity in [...]
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Ophthalmology Centre in Cusco
PROJECT: Peru. January 2013.
In January 2013, we launched a new ophthalmology centre at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Cusco, Peru, to serve the regions of Cusco, Apurimac and Madre de Dios. [...]
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Programme for the Eradication of Trachoma in Turkana
PROJECT: Kenya. 2011 - 2015.
In collaboration with other NGOs, we supported the distribution of the antibiotic azithromycin to the population of Turkana for the fight against trachoma during the period 2011–2015. With nearly 1,000,000 [...]