240 blind children and their families will receive rehabilitation support. 600 blind children traced from rural communities by the trained key informants. 1,200 visually impaired children will be helped through eye
To develop a health communication strategy, and to design, pilot, produce and disseminate health education materials to reduce cataract blindness in children in Bangladesh. Development, piloting and dissemination of
To Identify and examine 80% of approximately 8,000 blind children in selected 103 upazilas of Dhaka division Approximately one third (2,400) of the examined children will be referred to the partner eye hospital for free
Childhood blindness project is a research initiative of the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to implement extensive, large scale epidemiological, qualitative and
“The old man said that he would die very soon, so he would like to see his grand daughter get
Nazim Uddin from Kishorganj district, was born with bilateral cataract. Although his parents recognized that he had sight problems from
Baby Khatun’s father, Idris Ali, is a farmer and has seven children. At the age of three, Baby Khatun’s parents
Nizam Uddin is a 10 years old boy, living in Jhagrar Char village in Bhairob Upazilla of Kishorganj district. He
Most visually impaired children remain untreated…
