Mission Agencies
This category lists any agencies involved in ophthalmology misison efforts around the world.
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 Medical Teams International The mission of Medical Teams International is to demonstrate the love of Christ to people affected by disaster, conflict and poverty around the world. |
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HELPS International HELPS International, organized in 1984, is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that partners with individuals, businesses, corporations, local and national governments to alleviate poverty in Latin America. HELPS integrated programs include: medical care, education, community and economic development, and agricultural innovations in order to improve the quality of life for the indigenous people of Latin America. |
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EyeCare WeCare Foundation, Inc. EyeCare WeCare Foundation, Inc. is a Christian centered 501 (c)(3) public tax exempt foundation that targets the rural poor in the Philippines and provides the indigents with vision examinations, provides prescription donated eyeglasses, needed eye medications and eye surgeries performed by Resources for the Blind. The foundation utilizes a mobile vision clinic which can be ferried to many of the 7,107 islands and then drive to the very remote areas. EyeCare WeCare Foundation has no paid staff is a 100% volunteers organization. |
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Benevolent Missions International Benevolent Missions International (BMI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing needed ophthalmic care to the underserved in many areas around the world. The goal of BMI is to ultimately develop each site into a self-sufficient mission with well-equipped healthcare facilities staffed and operated by local medical personnel and volunteers. This takes time, manpower, dedication and funding. |
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The Fred Hollows Foundation The Fred Hollows Foundation is a not-for-profit, community-based, non-government development aid organisation. The Foundation was launched in Sydney, Australia on 3 September 1992, just five months before Professor Fred Hollows passed away. Fred was committed to improving the health of Indigenous Australians and to reducing the cost of eye health care and treatment in developing countries. He had already started project work in Eritrea, Vietnam and Indigenous Australia. Since those early days, The Foundation has gone on to work with countries throughout Africa, Asia (South and South East) and Australia focusing on blindness prevention and Australian Indigenous health. |
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Interserve USA Interserve USA is one of several National Councils around the world who cooperate in providing means for people to serve God by serving others. We are part of an international fellowship of Christians who want to be Servants for the hard places. We serve in countries across North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and among immigrant people in the U.S. We use our professional skills to minister to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the people that we serve. We seek to spread the Gospel where it is least known helping people understand their options regarding faith, believing that many will choose to become disciples of Jesus Christ. |
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Mercy Ships Mercy Ships, a global charity, has operated hospital ships in developing nations since 1978. Following the example of Jesus, Mercy Ships brings hope and healing to the forgotten poor, mobilizing people and resources worldwide, and serving all people without regard for race, gender or religion. |
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Health Talents International Founded in 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama, Health Talents International is a non-profit Christian organization that works within the Churches of Christ to promote medical evangelism in developing countries. As Christians, we feel that God expects us to use our talents, medical and otherwise, in His service. (Matthew 25) |
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Sightsavers International Sightsavers works to combat blindness in developing countries, restoring sight through specialist treatment and eye care. We also support people who are irreversibly blind by providing education, counselling and training. We help the people who need it most - those living in poverty in some of the world's poorest countries. |
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Operation Eyesight Operation Eyesight Universal is an international development organization dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness. Since 1963, they have brought sight-saving treatment to more than 35 million people. Today their work is focused on India and the African countries of Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and Zambia – places where blindness can be deadly, especially to those who are very young, old or poor. |
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The Himalayan Cataract Project The Himalayan Cataract Project strives to eradicate preventable and curable blindness in the Himalaya through high-quality ophthalmic care, education, and establishment of a sustainable eye care infrastructure. Based in Asia at the Tilganga Eye Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal, the Project is empowering local physicians to alleviate the suffering caused by blindness through unique programs including skills-transfer education, cost-recovery, research, and the creation of a world-class network of eye care facilities. |
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Helen Keller International Founded in 1915, Helen Keller International (HKI) is among the oldest international nonprofit organizations devoted to fighting and treating preventable blindness and malnutrition. HKI is headquartered in New York City, and has programs in 23 countries around the world. HKI builds local capacity by establishing sustainable programs, and provides scientific and technical assistance and data to governments and international, regional, national and local organizations around the world. HKI programs combat malnutrition, cataract, trachoma, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and refractive error. The goal of all HKI programs is to reduce suffering of those without access to needed health or vision care and ultimately, to help lift people from poverty. |
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Eyesight International Eyesight International (Canada), in a joint project with the Canadian International Development Agency, is working with its' southern partners, the L.V. Prasad Eye Instute and the International Centre for the Advancement of Rural Eye Care, in Hyderabad, India, to transform two small and inefficient facilities into financially self sustaining centres delivering high quality eye care services to communities of about 500,000 each. This is being accomplished through the training of all levels of eye care personnel and the development of community eye care programs. |
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Lighthouse for Christ The Lighthouse is a modern clinic and surgery center located in Kenya with most of the equipment found in an American clinic, including Yag and Argon lasers and Phaco units. The Eye Centre is staffed by a full-time ophthalmologist, clinic administrator and 35 technicians and staff members all of which are Kenyans. |
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ORBIS International As a nonprofit humanitarian organization, ORBIS International strives to eliminate avoidable blindness and restore sight in the developing world. By strengthening the capacity of our local eye health partners to prevent and treat avoidable blindness. |
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Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International, Inc. is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides medical, surgical and educational services by volunteer ophthalmic surgeons (board certified, and in active practice) with the primary objective of restoring sight to disadvantaged blind individuals worldwide. |
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Medical Ministry International Medical Ministry International is an opportunity to serve Jesus Christ by providing spiritual and physical health care in this world of need. Our vision is to care annually for 100 million of the world's needy by the year 2050. MMI is committed to meet the need for medical care among the world's poor with lasting solutions through excellence in medicine, patient care, and health education. |
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Centro Cristiano de Servicios Humanitario de Honduras The Centro Cristiano de Servicios Humanitario de Honduras (CCSHH), located in El Progreso, Yoro, was founded by the late Dr. Douglas Perry of Sarasota, Florida in collaboration with Reverend Daniel and Ruth Castro, Directors of Sociedad Medica Cristiana, and Willie Hunter, General Director of Medical Ministry International. |
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Christian Blind Mission CBM Christian Blind Mission / Christoffel-Blindenmission is one of the leading international development agencies for people with disabilities. It supports the provision of services to persons with visual disabilities as well as people with other disabilities in more than 1,000 projects in 113 developing countries. CBM assists the world's poorest people with disabilities and those at risk of disability regardless of their nationality, sex, or religion. |
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Health for Humanity Since 1992, Health for Humanity has focused its work on meeting this unmet, urgent need of providing technical medical training through partnerships with existing health care institutions around the world. Health for Humanity’s work is unique because it prioritizes long-term capacity building of health care professionals in developing countries, recognizing the growing need for advanced medical education to sustainably improve health care worldwide. Currently seeking volunteers in ophthalmology and optometry for programs in: May 2010, Tianjin, China July 2010, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia September 2010, Ulaanbaatar Mongolia (ped opth) Please contact for more information. |
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