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| Summary: | Visio Sense Fronteres is a Calpe based charity that supports the prevention of blindness in the developing world | Overview:  When Contacting This Business:  Please Mention "Calpe Online 24"
| Contact Name: | Isabel Signes Soler | | Telephone: | (0034) 96 583 2080 |
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Who We Are?
In 1998 a small group of friends had the idea to help people in need who unfairly poverty due to their lack something rather basic: the capacity to see.
"Vision is the foundation of learning.
To be left blind means depending on others "
VSF is an NGO (non governmental organization) with the main objective of preventing avoidable blindness. This includes the treatment of eye illnesses as well as the correction of vision by the use of glasses. The team compromises of volunteers, whose qualifications stem from optometry, ophthalmology, specialist technicians and assistants.
Although the NGO is a relatively new organization, it has already travelled far. In 1998 the NGO visited India. 650 people were examined and their pathologies were treated. In the following years until 2001 the team worked in Marrakech and Tetouan. 3856 patients were treated and 3400 people were given help with glasses.
They continued in to Namibia, Mozambique and Cuba and again after the Tsunami in India. VSF has so far treated more than 25,000 people and has been able to give them a long lasting solution.At the beginning of each Project VSF has accurate information about the situation and the Necesities of the destinationGenerally, there is a great deal of interest.
What does VSF Achieve with your help?
You will give people the base to help Third World countries themselves.In it is only by having good sight that a higher level of education can be achieved. 60% of what a man learns is through the eye, for example, reading at school or in later studies. For this reason, the capacity of sight must be connected with the development of the individual.
Without donations VSF would not be able to help in this way. Although the organization use their professional contacts, collecting used glasses from opticians and working with the manufacturers of spectacles and glasses the task requires the purchase of technical materials and medicines.
A revision and treatment cost an average of 30 €.
Nowadays 300 members and donators permanently support and finance VSF and tI team compromises more than 40 volunteers.
