Global Perspective
- According to 2015 statistics, out of 7.3 Billion people, 253 Million are visually impaired.
- 55 % of visually impaired are women.
- 75 % of the Global Visual Impairment is curable.
- 89 % of the Visually Impaired are in middle and low-income countries.
- 1.1 Billion people just need prescription reading glasses.
- The major cause of Visual Impairment is Uncorrected Refractive Errors, correctable with the prescription of suitable glasses.
- Second most common cause of Visual Impairment is Cataract.
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) # 1,3,4,5, 8, 10 & 17 have direct or indirect reference to the needs of the Visually Impaired. These SDGs needs to be addressed at Government as well as Non-Government levels.UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) needs to be taken up at the NGO level too to address the concerns and efforts be made for their inclusion in our community programs.Unicef Convention on the Rights of Child addresses universal concerns and Vision Trust wants to make positive contributions in this regards too.
Domestic Situation
- Total Visual Impairment in Pakistan, both genders and all ages for 2020 is 11.21 %.
- This translates into 2.8 million people who have Visual loss.
Vision
Making our world a better place for living, by eliminating curable visual loss.
Mission
- Creating and running a quality eye care facility to cater needs of those who may have barriers in access to such care in general with a particular focus on the underprivileged without compromising the quality of services.
- Create and run school eye health services, in an early intervention program with a focus on screening for visual loss in school-going children.
- Sensitising the community and mobilising the opinion of the general public about the needs of visually impaired and promoting inclusion of people with disabilities in line with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) and Convention on the Rights of Child (UNCRC).Advocacy in these matters to promote legislation by Provincial and Federal governments in these regards, thus contribute our humble efforts toward the achievement of the above-mentioned vision.Cooperate and explore avenues of mutually beneficial relationships with national and international initiatives identified to have similar goals.Align our efforts with the global (UN & International Association for Prevention of Blindness) and Domestic initiatives (National Committee for Eye Health, Pakistan).
OUR JOURNEY
Inception in 2004,
We started working for the above Mission, at a humble level at Bahadurabad, Karachi, Pakistan as Sheikh Aziz-ur-Rehman Memorial Eye Clinic in 2004. This initiative was organised as Danishsra Welfare Association registered under The Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies (Registration And Control Ordinance 1961) of Pakistan.
Re-organisation;
In 2009 we re-structured our legal framework and transformed into Vision Trust registered under The Trusts Act (II OF 1882) of Pakistan.
Presently;
For want of expansion of our service base and workload capacity, in 2016, we moved our clinic to a bigger and better premises, near Islamia College, Karachi Pakistan, courtesy K&N’s Foundation, which is registered under section 42 of The Companies Act, 2017 of Pakistan. The eyecare facility here morphed into Khairun-nisa Eye Hospital, located at the premises provided by the Foundation at 49/4 Dr. Tharani Road, Gujrat Colony, Jamshed Town, Karachi-74800, Pakistan.
Over all these years, thousands of underprivileged have benefited with high quality eye care and surgeries. Moreover this has provided us a firm foothold in society and a step for us to move on. It also reflects in a way our unwavering resolve, perseverance, and the success of our working and financial model.Immediate Future Plans;Our School Eye Health Services are being initiated with various organisations like Nasra School Trust, Ida Rieu School for Deaf and Dumb, Jannat Aziz Hospital, Burewala,
The Citizen Foundation and with Read Foundation. Our objective is to provide eyesight screening to as many school going children as possible.We intend to empower the schools by training their staff to conduct simple and routine eye sight screening tests on an annual basis and share their findings with us. The central theme is to install/ empower the schools towards creating and managing a self sustainable eyesight screening mechanism. Once established this can Include other school health components like nutrition, hearing defects etc and rehabilitation of the blind.Long Term Future Plans;To setup a Human Resource Development, Teaching and Training Facility from ground up, a comprehensive eye care facility, providing quality eye to privileged, underprivileged alike and those in need to be treated totally free of cost.
