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We’re currently visiting Malawi and the team has a packed schedule of visits to the clinics and institutions we’re supporting. The team will be hearing how work and projects are going, learning about challenges and new plans, and catching up with the students we’re sponsoring. Travelling with the team are some expert technicians and they’ll…

We’ve recently published our bi-annual Newslink e-mail bulletin giving a review of how the clinicians in Malawi have been serving their local communities in the last six months. You can see the March 2025 edition online here, with the opportunity to sign up to receive future editions. We send two main bulletins a year, via…

We are now hosting a pilot series of six online seminars entitled “An Introduction to Orthoptics” led by Rowena McNamara MSc DBO(T). These are being made available to invited eye health clinicians in the northern region of Malawi. The course of seminars, running from February to March 2025, is designed to help optical and medical…

Back in May, we reported that Ekwendeni Mission Hospital had launched its first community eye health scheme. Now we’ve just received a report from Sullen Munthali, the clinic’s ophthalmic clinical officer, about their second campaign which took place in October and November this year. Here is a summary of his report… In the remote regions…

We thought you might be interested in a service designed to make your Christmas preparations a bit easier, while helping clinicians in Malawi extend eye health services further into the needy communities around them. If you send Christmas cards, you may be concerned with how expensive postage is, the impact on the environment, as well…

We’ve received a most encouraging report from the eye clinic at Embangweni Mission Hospital about recent developments in their community eye health education and screening programme, reaching out to villages, schools and colleges, at the same time facilitating the professional development of their clinicians. Here’s a brief summary of their report, together with a selection…