Sight Relief (SCIO)

About

Sight Relief is a Scottish charity established to provide sight-saving eye care to underprivileged communities in developing countries, with a focus on Pakistan, where 26 million people are blind or visually impaired and the vast majority of cases are curable or preventable. We deliver free eye screening camps in remote and rural areas, dispensing spectacles, facilitating cataract surgery, and training local health workers. We follow a four-phase model: from emergency outreach camps, through community capacity building and formal clinical training, to establishing permanent eye care infrastructure embedded within government health systems. In 2024–25 we launched the Haripur Primary Eye Care Integration Pilot in partnership with the District Health Office and University of St Andrews — a WHO-aligned model training Lady Health Workers and Medical Officers to deliver sustainable, ongoing eye care long after our teams leave.

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