Unite For Sight volunteers participate in hands-on clinical service while assisting eye doctors in rural villages, refugee camps, and slums.
Volunteers are immersed in international health and development programs while providing eye care to patients living in extreme poverty.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access.
The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages.
The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds.
Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients’ faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
