Modern Eyecare Foundation
Bringing Basic Eye Care Closer to Rural Communities
Saving Sights, Changing Lives…
Every person deserves the opportunity to see clearly. Yet, for many people living in rural and underserved communities, access to basic eye care remains a significant challenge.
Across many communities, people live far from eye clinics and hospitals, while the cost of transportation, consultation, treatment, and glasses can make eye care difficult to afford. As a result, simple and treatable eye problems may go undetected or untreated for years.
For some, poor vision affects their ability to work, learn, care for their families, and participate fully in everyday life. Others may live with cataracts, uncorrected refractive errors, eye infections, glaucoma, or other conditions without knowing that help is available.
Our Commitment
Modern EyeCare Foundation is committed to helping bridge this gap by taking basic eye-care services closer to the people who need them most.
Through community outreach programmes, we aim to support underserved communities with services such as basic eye screenings, vision assessments, eye-health education, referrals, and access to appropriate care.
Our goal is not simply to screen eyes, but to promote a culture where people understand the importance of regular eye examinations and seek care before preventable vision problems become life-changing.
We Need Your Partnership
Reaching rural and underserved communities requires more than the efforts of one organisation. It requires the commitment of individuals, organisations, businesses, healthcare professionals, community leaders, and other partners who believe that good vision should not be determined by where a person lives or what they can afford.
Get involved
Work with the Foundation
Partner, volunteer, or ask us to bring an outreach to your community.
Partner with us
Organisations, businesses and healthcare professionals who can help reach a community.
Volunteer
Optometrists, nurses and helping hands for screening days.
Request an outreach
Community leaders and schools who know somewhere that needs one.
So far
Our outreach work
No outreach programmes have been published yet
The Foundation is being set up and its first outreaches are being planned. When one has happened, it will be recorded here — with where it was, how many people were seen, and what came of it.
Chairperson: Dr. Priscilia Uhuanmwen Imade. More about her
