CBP Funding For Pediatric Eye Clinics

The CBP funding will assist in the construction of the pediatric eye clinics, equipping the clinics, and providing training to the health professionals. These clinics will be running their activities at a high-quality level beyond the period of CBP funding. These clinics will require funds to continue running its services, the funds required will be needed to pay the salary of the health professionals who work at the clinic, to refill the supplies of the clinic such as office supplies and medicines and to pay for the utility services such as water and electricity. The program will request the Local and National Health Institutes and the governments of the countries where these clinics were settled to include the clinics in the country’s budget

This organization believes that the best way to achieve this is to have permanent free clinics in underserved locations in Latin America, so that the children in these regions who are not able to access eye care through other ways, will receive regular eye care through treatment, education, and if needed rehabilitation. Through this proposed project, the organization will be able to improve the ability to deliver permanent eye care to five strategic locations in Latin America. The five clinics that will be built will improve the infrastructure in the chosen underserved regions. This project will strengthen the organizational and human capacity of Fundación para la Salud Visual Infantil: Providing Permanent Eye Care to children in underserved communities in Latin America. CBP funding will provide the organization with the ability to recruit and train medical professionals and other staff to run the five clinics, increasing the personnel this organization has to provide eye care services in Latin

This organization through this project will also be able to refer children and their families to other projects, clinics, or organizations if further and more specialized treatment is needed. Education to the children and their families will also be provided by the clinics’ personnel. Lack of awareness, availability, accessibility, and affordability of services are the major barriers for care, so providing these tools to underserved families will allow the early identification of a child's vision problem. If left untreated, some childhood vision problems can cause permanent vision loss, so having the ability to raise public awareness in these communities will be vital to prevent vision problems that could lead to