Eye care for school children

Location:                      Bujumbura, Burundi.

Project leadtime:         6 months

Requestor:                   NDAYISHIMIYE Liliane - Association Mères des Enfants Handicapés au Burundi (AMEHBU)

Description of the project:

Visually impaired children have many problems at school (difficulty reading, tears flowing while reading, headaches and swollen eyes...).
Moreover, due to poverty, eye care is not accessible for 80% of the population, people have to travel far for treatment and the parents of these children pay too little attention to this problem.

Objectives:

- Significantly reduce the impact of eye disease by organizing a major free campaign for eyewear screening, orientation, treatment and distribution.
- Raise awareness for the prevention of eye diseases.
- Promote the education of visually impaired young people.

Beneficiaries:

- 450 children whose age varies between 3 and 15 years.
- parents, guardians of children and teachers of these children

Budget :

3450 Euros (about a third of the requested budget, good for the treatment of 150 children)

Risks :

- Risk of school dropout.
- Risk of going blind.

Attached documents:

Budget

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Follow-up of the project

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