Preventing Blindness in children

The highest impact for development Sergio Latorre Artega Fundacin Entretodos

Visual health in children

Affects to learning process and academic results
Children oftenly can not manifest the problem Uncorrected Refractive Errors after 6-8 years of age can

cause permanent Visual Disability even after correction: Ambliopy

A basic Eye test performed by trained teacher can dettect

it and avoid consecuences

What teachers need to know

Basic knowledge:
- Visual function and learning process - Anatomy of the Eye - Prevention of Common pathologies and refractive errors - Performing Screening in the school

- Collecting acurate data

What is needed
Design a suitable guide of Visual health and learning proccess and provide

specific tools of Eye checkup profesionals

Create a coordinated net of acting involving educational and health Refer students with suspected eye problems to the Eye specialist Collect stadistical data: both quantitative and qualitative methods

attending the efficency of the procedure and the prevalence of the eye conditions

Provide solutions attending to sustainability Publish the clinical results to advocate for promoting eye care programs as

the Goals of WHO Vision 2020

The challenge of trainning trainers

A sellection of proactive teachers can make the difference
Multiply the beneficiaries with an efficient control of the

expenses
Promote a culture of Visual Health and prevention of

blindness with valuable benefits in the development community

Keys for the viability

Get the compromise of Educational Authorities. They will play a main roll in the success of the program.
Involve Eye Specialist with their commitment to benefit the entire society. Spreading Eye care creates in long term a higher demand of the services the provide. Take into account the access to the eye specialist of refered children when planing the program

Search for the implication and awareness of Parents

Give value to the data collected in the whole program: You can not Improve what you can not measure. Evaluate and monitor the process with the collaboration of participants. Regist the Feed back.

Appeal to the Social Responsability of Optical Supliers to get low cost and good quality solutions

Results to be expected
Leadership in an innovate program with a high impact in

the goals of Vision 2020 of the WHO

A social recognition of both educational and health

profesionals
Inspire to others publishing the result to the scientific

community

Sergio Latorre Arteaga

President of Entretodos Foundation Contact: sergiolarteaga@gmail.com