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When all’s said and done, it was worth it. A blog from Botswana.

Looking back now, there is very little I would change about the weeks we spent in the field because at the end of it all, almost 13,000 (12,877) students from all 49 schools got access to eye screening in three weeks.

The Peek Story: celebrating the launch of Peek Retina

Around 200 guests from all over the world attended The Peek social impact story: how technology and knowledge is increasing access to eye care.

Peek Botswana celebrates delivery of spectacles to hundreds of school children

“The Peek Botswana programme shows how much can be achieved in a short time by involving a team of partners and that teachers and other non-medics can be successfully trained to use Peek tools.”

Royal demo for Peek Retina

Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex took a photo of the back of an eye using Peek Retina during a visit to eye health programmes in Malawi last week.

Andrew Bastawrous Rolex 2016 LAUREATE

“I accept this award on behalf of a lady called Maria. She’s a young Kenyan mother of three who’d walked for miles on a rumour she’d heard that we were running an eye clinic. When she came we found that she was blind in both eyes."

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36 million people worldwide are blind.  Four in five of them could keep their sight with simple surgery or treatment.  Millions more can't see clearly, yet need no more than a simple pair of glasses.  We won't stop until everyone has been linked to the treatment and services they need.