Countdown to World Sight Day 2022
ABALON Trust is an innovative, international eye-health charity working with medically underserved communities in sub-Saharan Africa, The Caribbean and The United Kingdom.
Thursday, 13 October 2022
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We could not deliver the work we do without our hospital and community-based colleagues, academic partners, and volunteers.
Barbados
Charles Pierce, Ophthalmologist
Barbados Diabetes Foundation and University of the West Indies
The Maria Holder Diabetes Centre for the Caribbean
http://www.thebarbadosdiabetesfoundation.org/
ABALON Trust provides diabetic retina training to trainees, equipment, and resources in the Barbados Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (BDESP).
Kenya
George S. Odhiambo-Ohito, Cataract Surgeon
City Eye Hospital, Nairobi and Saiya, and Mount Kenya University
https://www.cityeyehospital.or.ke/
ABALON Trust provides funding, medicines, surgical equipment, and aftercare to enable colleagues in Kenya to offer cataract surgery to people living in communities that would not ordinarily have access to it.
Zimbabwe
Lynett Masiwa, Optometrist
Parirenyatwa General Hospital and University of Zimbawe
Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals
ABALON Trust volunteers coordinate community eye camps in rural parts of Zimbabwe that would not ordinarily have access to eye screening and treatment. We also work with schools in Zimbabwe to train teachers to perform basic eye tests on children.