Our Mission
Vision For All aims to promote health care to medically underserved people and communities, by providing preventative eye care, surveillance, and eye health education to high-risk population members, thereby optimizing health outcomes and minimizing the cost of catastrophic visual loss. This is all free of charge whenever possible.
Our Program
A volunteer doctor performing an eye exam at the Alexandra Hospital in Charlestown, Nevis which is part of Vision For All’s Nevis Eye Care Program.
Our volunteers are a multi-disciplinary professional staff of ophthalmologists, optometrists, ophthalmic technicians, ophthalmic nurses, community health specialists and trained lay people and a coalition of health volunteers and community advocates and utilize their associated expertise, skill and strengths for the purpose of treating people at high-risk of vision loss. This includes caring for elderly people, people with glaucoma, diabetics and underserved populations, preventing visual loss, and providing eye care services
How We Function
We educate the public and health care professionals about the causes, prevention and treatments of eye disease.
We expand access to preventive and curative eye care for underserved populations through eye clinics staffed by volunteer doctors, local nurses, volunteer surgical nurses, volunteer surgical technicians and other volunteer support.
We utilize telemedicine and other contemporary technologies to enhance program effectiveness and increase staff productivity.
We work closely with the Local Ministry of Health in order to support the local health systems and empower medical personnel to maintain the long-term sustainability of programs.
Nevis Eye Care Program operating theater staff at the Alexandra Hospital in Nevis, St Kitts and Nevis, West INdies