Case Studies

La lecture avait toujours été l’un des plus grands plaisirs de la vie pour Eunice. Mais peu à peu, ce plaisir s’est transformé en défi éprouvant.

Milvia Carolina Guerra Manchamé of Guatemala always knew she wanted to teach. But for years, a persistent challenge followed her into the classroom: her vision was failing.

Milvia Carolina Guerra Manchamé of Guatemala always knew she wanted to teach. But for years, a persistent challenge followed her into the classroom: her vision was failing.

It was not until one of our career guidance sessions in my final year of secondary school when one of my teachers talked about the newly introduced optometry course at Makerere University. It was then that I formerly got introduced to the optometry profession.

Emmanuel is a 12 year old boy who didn’t attend school. He wished every day he could go with the other children in the village but he had been nearly blind since birth. He spent his days in his village which he knew well enough to get around. His local community tried to look out for him to help him stay safe.

Albinism is a congenital disorder that is characterised by the partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, eyes and hair. The disorder has a very high prevalence in Tanzania with 1 in every 1,200 people suffering from it.

Aged 16, Seakthy wanted to excel at school but she couldn’t see things clearly. Without professional eye care she also wrongly believed that her condition was a normal vision development.