Kenya

Kenya is a lower—and middle-income country with uneven wealth distribution, poverty, and human rights. One-tenth of Kenyans have approximately two-fifths of the total wealth.
A recent study in Kenya identified avoidable causes of blindness (i.e., cataract, refractive error, trachoma, and corneal scarring) as 69.6% of blindness and 74.9% of visual impairment.

The benefits of eliminating avoidable blindness and visual impairment are significant, overriding costs by over 3.5 times. For each dollar invested in the efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness and visual impairment, a return of over $3.56 is experienced in Kenya. Therefore, by partnering with local government, hospitals, and doctors to restore sight to the most needy, we boost an individual's ability to gain employment and sustain their livelihood by 30%.

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Lions SightFirst Eye hospital
AIC Litein Hospital
Siloam Hospital
Sabatia Eye Hospital
Invela Health care
Marsabit Referral Hospital
Kenya society for the blind
Tenwek Hospital
Kilgoris District Hospital
Garissa Referral Hospital
Lions Club of Nakuru
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Essilor
Vision Spring

Current Projects

Outreach Team

In Kenya, we work in many ways to help the community. We organize outreaches, donate cataract kits, surgical and optical equipment, and frames for glasses donations. This allows the people in Kenya to receive the optical care they need.
Essilor OneSight Project

Essilor supports school screening projects throughout Kenya by donating frames and clip-in glasses to help solve the problem of eyecare accessibility.
LDS Project

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides training for local ophthalmologists to improve their skills as doctors as they help their community. In addition to this support, we are building vision centers to provide low-cost eyecare. (add locations)

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Kenya
Annual
Report

2023

Patients Screened: 25,049

Surgeries Performed: 1,735

Glasses Donated: 3,832

Outreaches: 306

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Meet The Team

Olivia Edebe

“I love working for CharityVision because I am passionate about service and self-reliance. CharityVision is all about—helping build strong, self-reliant communities by helping eradicate needless blindness.”
Email: olivia@charityvision.org
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Stories from the field

Baptist and Olivia, our Country Director and Kenya Coordinator, traveled to Mombasa to meet new partners. They also donated surgery consumables to the Kenya Society for the Blind and Lions SightFirst Eye Hospital.