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Improving Vision in Cambodia

Training Cambodian Ophthalmologists

Creating Local Self Sufficiency

Improving Vision in Cambodia

Training Cambodian Ophthalmologists

Creating Local Self Sufficiency

The Current Situation in Cambodia

180,000+

Cambodians Who Are Blind

10,000

Cambodians that suffer avoidable blindness each year

90%

of blindness is avoidable

32

Ophthalmologists service a population of over

15,000,000

  • Cambodia has one of the lowest number of eye specialist doctors per capita in the world.
  • 10 percent of the population lives below the poverty line; over 40% of Cambodians earn $2 per day.
  • Most of the poor live in rural areas where there is either no or limited access to eye care.