by urbycoz | Jan 29, 2024 | Uncategorised
We are excited about taking our first volunteers from the UK with us on a 10day rewarding and fun packed week of eye camps, in the most rural of places. Returning to Chitral as our base, we plan to re-visit some locations from last year due to the urgent need of eye...
by urbycoz | Jan 29, 2024 | Uncategorised
Winter months means not many people leave their homes, we have no planned eye camps in January and February due to the weather. March 2024, we have the blessed month of Ramadhan where we will be running our ongoing annual food pack distribution and financial aid...
by urbycoz | Jun 29, 2023 | Uncategorised
The weather in the summers is extremely hot and hence no eye camps were performed in June and July. 729 People benefited from free eye screening from monthly camps (August till December) being held in different villages. Two local optometrists from Pakistan who are...
by urbycoz | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorised
Chitral is impacted by high levels of poverty with most of the population living in remote villages away from larger town and limited access to primary healthcare. The Sight Relief team visited Chitral, Garam Chashma, Kalash Valley, Drosh and Upper Dir. We examined...
by urbycoz | Apr 12, 2023 | Uncategorised
In the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria where nearly 60,00 people lost their lives and more than 4 million people were made homeless, we launched an emergency appeal for immediate shelter and supplies. We received £1,230 in...
by urbycoz | Apr 12, 2023 | Uncategorised
Our local team continues to go from strength to strength and are now regularly undertaking outreach eye camps in remote locations around the Hazara District in KPK. Successful eye camps with our local employees are becoming more frequent and the process becoming more...
