PBL - Prevention of Blindness
Disability?
When the word 'disability' is mentioned in
connection with Afghanistan, most people
automatically think of landmine victims and
artificial limbs. Amputees, however, represent
only about one-quarter of all Afghans with
disabilities. About the same number suffer from
restricted mobility due to polio, and nearby half of
the country's disabled are blind, deaf, mentally
retarded, or multiply impaired. The causes of
disability are varied (warfare, insufficient basic
health care, the tradition of intermarriage), but
many are preventable. In the area of disability,
SERVE has three projects: PBL (Prevention of
Blindness), an integration project called E.M.A.D.
(Enabling and Mobilising Afghan Disabled) and
SHIP (SERVE's Hearing Impaired Project).
connection with Afghanistan, most people
automatically think of landmine victims and
artificial limbs. Amputees, however, represent
only about one-quarter of all Afghans with
disabilities. About the same number suffer from
restricted mobility due to polio, and nearby half of
the country's disabled are blind, deaf, mentally
retarded, or multiply impaired. The causes of
disability are varied (warfare, insufficient basic
health care, the tradition of intermarriage), but
many are preventable. In the area of disability,
SERVE has three projects: PBL (Prevention of
Blindness), an integration project called E.M.A.D.
(Enabling and Mobilising Afghan Disabled) and
SHIP (SERVE's Hearing Impaired Project).
One of SERVE's important projects
is the Prevention of Blindness
project that was established in
January 2000. Through the years,
many of our workers were
confronted with patients who
became blind due to eye diseases
that could have been prevented.
That was how the idea was born
for a prevention project.
is the Prevention of Blindness
project that was established in
January 2000. Through the years,
many of our workers were
confronted with patients who
became blind due to eye diseases
that could have been prevented.
That was how the idea was born
for a prevention project.
SERVE Afghanistan
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prevention of blindness
- isn't this a miracle?
- community volunteers
- isn't this a miracle?
- community volunteers
- teaching health issues in order to prevent
eye problems and blindness to clients as
well as in the district schools
- providing eye health care
services for the rural
population
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