Mozambique Cooperative Optometric Training Scheme: Sustainable Solutions to Community Health and Poverty Using Existing Irish Expertise in Optometry Programme Delivery
Presentation to UniLurio Optometry Students
September 2009
The Mozambique Eyecare Project is an Irish Aid funded initiative, involving partners from Lúrio University in Mozambique and the International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE), in collaboration with Dublin Institute of Technology and University of Ulster, which aims to address the problem of avoidable blindness in Mozambique, Lusophone Africa and across developing nations.
The Eyecare Project, with the help of the partners mentioned above,
is establishing Mozambique’s first Optometry School in Lúrio
University, Nampula, using a model developed be Professor Kovin Naidoo,
Global Programmes Director of the International Centre for Eyecare
Education (ICEE), Co‐Chair of the International Association for the
Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and CEO of AVRI.
The Mozambique Eyecare Project aims to train Mozambique’s first professional optometrists and optometry technicians who will provide a sustainable and comprehensive eye-care system as an integral part of the national health system. Mozambique currently has only 13 ophthalmologists for a population of 21 million, very few optometrists and dispensing opticians. Over the five years of the project, the Mozambican People will benefit from comprehensive eye examinations and the provision of glasses which until now are simply not available to them.
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Development Lecture DIT November 2009
Optometry Giving Sight Transforming Lives Through the Gift of Vision
Presented By Clive Miller Chief Executive Officer of Optometry Giving Sight
Sustainable Development Presentation
By Dr James Loughman, Research Coordinator, Dublin Institute of Technology
