CARITAS Cambodia

Mission/Vision

Vision:

Realization of a just society where rights of people are respected and integral development of people is promoted through rehabilitation and health care with quality eye care for all: Vision 2020

Mission:

• To integrate blind people into the society
• To eliminate preventable and treatable blindness
• To train eye care personnel
• To develop provincial eye units

Collaborating/ partner agencies

Caritas Cambodia, Maryknoll, Ministry of Health Sub-Committee on Prevention of Blindness, Eye Unit in Kampong Spue, Kampot, Phnom Penh Municipal Hospital, Pursat and Preah Norodom Sihanouk Hospital, National Pediatric Hospital, Taiwan Oral Surgery and ENT Team, Cambodian Society of Oral Surgery, Monovong Hospital, Cambodian Ophthalmology Society and other NGO’s

Areas of Focus (projects)

1. Community Based Rehabilitation Program
2. Eye care service at Takeo Eye Hospital
3. Training of eye care personnel
4. Develop provincial eye units

1. Community Based Rehabilitation Program: The fieldworkers deliver rehab activities in the villages where blind people are, that includes income-generating activities with loan assistance, orientation and mobility training and skills for daily living. Assists the different provincial eye unit during their outreach activity in following up poor patients who need eye operations. In collaboration with other NGOs and visiting medical experts, organize the harelip/cleft palate operations as well as plastic surgery operations. Support poor blind children from the provinces to study at Khrousar Thmey School for the Blind.
2. Training and service delivery at Takeo Eye Hospital: the hospital receives the mandate from the Ministry of Health to train eye care personnel. Diploma Opthalmology for doctors and Ophthalmic Nurse Course are being conducted at the hospital with curriculum approved by the Ministry of Health. Takeo Eye Hospital continues to treat patients from different provinces that provide good clinical resources for the training needs of the doctors and nurses.
3. Development of provincial eye units: Eye unit of Municipal Hospital-Phnom Penh, Kampong Spue, Kampot, Pursat and Preah Norodom Sihanouk Hospital are being assisted to ensure that proper eye care is available at the hospital and within the reach of the poor. An ophthalmologist and nurse trainer in order to maintain the quality service and develop a system in the unit that is acceptable in the hospital set up are visiting the eye unit regularly.

Funding agency(s)