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Mozambique Eyecare Project

The Mozambique Eyecare Project aims to provide a sustainable solution to the problem of avoidable blindness through optometric education. There are 56 students enrolled in the project, thanks to a partnership between the Dublin Institute of Technology, Lúrio Univeristy in Mozambique and the International Centre for Eyecare Education. In 2011 we produced an image library and film for the project.

Dublin Institute of Technology (2011)

A small group of students from Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) visited UniLúrio in March of 2011. During their trip they worked together with UniLúrio students to screen children at local primary schools.
Instructor Luisa Simo Mannion prepares UniLúrio students for a school screening.
Agira Farige screens an albino child for visual impairment as her classmates look on.
Horacia Paulo Antonio (left) and Josefina Nemua teach children how to use an illiterate eye chart as Instructor Luisa Simo Mannion looks on. Children use their hands to indicate the direction of the E.
Suzete Guina screens a nearsighted girl. She says if she can help children see better, "The kids will study and grow and help Mozambique grow also."
Agira Farige screens a child for visual impairment.
Orla Murphy screens a child while a window-full of curious students watch. "It's amazing when you can help someone," says Orla. "That's my favorite part of optometry."
UniLúrio and DIT students work side-by-side during the screenings.
Dr James Loughman, Research Coordinator for the Mozambique Eyecare Project, does a retinoscopy during a school screening.
DIT student Orla Murphy screens a child for refractive error. Almost 500 school children were screened during the Irish students' week-long visit to UniLúrio.
Elementarys chool students wait their turn for screening.
Up to 80% of the world's blindness is avoidable. Often all people need is a pair of glasses.
A small group of students from Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) visited UniLúrio in March of 2011. Cliodhna Flannery assists UniLúrio students with their first ophthalmoscopy.
DIT student Claire Judge assists UniLúrio students with their clinical technique.
UniLúrio students test their new skills on fellow-classmate Ana Maria Tavares.
All health sciences students at UniLúrio are assigned a family in the local community and provide them with basic healthcare information. Optometry student Joel DeMello Bambamba walks to the home of his assigned family.
The mother in Joel's 1S1F family.
Many students, like Joel, live far from home while attending UniLúrio. He says his One Student One Family patients have become like family.
Suzete Guina in front of her assigned family's home. "Part of the role of academic universities is community engagement. The One Student One Family program takes it to a whole different level," says Dr James Loughman, Research Coordinator for the Mozambique Eyecare Project.
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