Medical Eye Care
This includes medical (ophthalmic) treatment and surgery for eye diseases and disorders, optometric treatment and eyeglass prescriptions, and public health efforts to control the spread of communicable eye diseases. To date, most such support has gone to developing world programs.
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Case Study Highlights
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Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital
In July 2017, the Fund approved a four-year grant of $679,116 to Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH) to establish a scalable, replicable training model for Allied Ophthalmic Professionals (AOPs), in order to increase the volume, efficiency, accessibility, and sustainability of eye care in the region’s high-need areas.
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LV Prasad Eye Institute
In April 2020, the Fund approved a two-year grant of $180,620 to support the L. V. Prasad (LVP) Eye Institute's upgrade of 20 existing Lavelle-supported Vision Centers in the state of Telangana, India. By providing them with IT-enabled ophthalmic equipment, the centers would be able to connect to LVP’s tertiary care center through the transmission of images, thereby expanding the scope and efficiency of eye care to rural areas.
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Seva Foundation
In January 2017, the Fund approved a three-year grant of $428,937 to the Seva Foundation, to help expand the capacity of two mentor eye clinics in Latin America-- Visualiza Eye Clinic in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and Divino Nino Jesus (DNJ) Eye Clinic in Lima, Peru-- to train Allied Ophthalmic Personnel (AOPs) through strengthened curricula.
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Fred Hollows Foundation USA
In January 2020, the Fund approved a 12-month grant of $50,000 to the Fred Hollows Foundation to support the provision of free or subsidized cataract surgeries for 500 patients in the Greater Hanoi, Vietnam area by Alina Vision, a social enterprise eye hospital dedicated to reducing preventable blindness and visual impairment in Vietnam.