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As we close out 2024, the Sight Relief team is excited to share our plans for 2025. The winter season, with extreme weather and safety concerns limiting our ability to travel north into Chitral, is redirecting our efforts toward capacity building and community...

In November 2024, we conducted two days of eye camps in Bara, screening 214 patients and performing 87 cataract surgeries in parallel with outpatient screenings. This marked our second camp where surgical procedures were conducted alongside our screening efforts,...

In October 2024, we proudly embarked on our first collaboration with Muslim Charity for a four-day eye screening event in Kashmir. Over the course of the camp, we screened 1,475 patients, marking a significant milestone as we conducted cataract surgeries for the first...

September was spent preparing for the mass screening camps in October.

In August 2024, our team revisited the Sehberg Trust, where we conducted eye screenings for 233 women and children. This initiative aimed to address the specific needs of these communities, ensuring they received essential eye care and access to glasses. The event was...

In June 2024, our dedicated Sight Relief team in Pakistan provided vital eye care to 1,535 patients in Upper Chitral. The team consisted of four optometrists, two dispensing opticians, and four support staff for patient registration and vision measurement. The team...

In May 2024, our dedicated volunteers Ian Christie and Ronya Naeem embarked on an unforgettable journey in the Hindu Kush mountains. They fully embraced the local culture and engaged hands-on in providing eye care, dispensing glasses and eye drops after completing a...

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...

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...

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 now...