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Seva’s Drivers for Success: Eye Care for Children

Today, more than 90 million children and adolescents live with some form of visual impairment. Because 80 percent of what a child learns is processed visually, undiagnosed vision impairment in children affects not only their social development and health, but can also negatively impact their professional careers.

Introducing Seva’s Drivers for Success: Eye Care for Children.

Seva prioritizes timely diagnosis and comprehensive eye care for children, from screening and early identification of eye care needs to referral, provision of care, and long-term followup.

Our programs are embedded in schools and local community networks to increase eye care awareness and ensure that children with vision problems get the ongoing care they need. Local vision centers build awareness and provide consistent access to basic eye care. Children in need of more advanced care are referred to partner hospitals with specialized facilities and staff.

Seva invests in critical training at every step, from training the community network to identify children with vision problems, to training doctors with highly-specialized surgical skills, like those necessary to restore sight to children like Pablito [pah-BLEE-toh].

With your support, Seva and its partners are working to insure that the next generation of children will be free of avoidable blindness.

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Seva's Drivers for Success

Vision Centers

Vision Centers are local permanent establishments that can address up to 80% of all eye care needs. They make basic eye care accessible to a community, no matter how remote, while also spreading awareness and serving as the foundation of a larger global referral network.

Technology

Technology is utilized and developed throughout our programs to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of outreach initiatives, vision screenings, hospital flow, complex surgical procedures, and to multiply the efforts of in-demand eye care specialists around the world.

Eye Care for Children

Eye Care for Children focuses on providing kids with comprehensive pediatric eye care. Awareness building and eye screening services are embedded into schools and communities, developing referral networks so that children get the care they need to thrive.

Training & Job Creation

Training and Jobs Creation expands access to eye care by scaling up the training and use of ophthalmic support staff and developing sustainable programs which create jobs for local women and men and stimulate the economy in their communities.

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