We support eye health facilities across the Pacific to deliver essential services like sight-restoring surgery, diabetes eye disease screening, and spectacle dispensing.
They are also important educational institutes, helping to train the next generation of eye care workers.
The clinics deliver more than just eye care – they are important training institutes that help strengthen local eye care workforces. Over the past 20 years, our work with Pacific governments and partners has helped train 372 local eye doctors, nurses, and clinicians.
These clinics also run outreach programmes, travelling around the region to provide sight-restoring surgeries to those without local access. Beyond increasing access to eye care, these outreaches offer valuable hands-on experience for students and opportunities for local clinicians to further develop their skills.
Our ambitions go beyond surgery alone. We support Pacific governments in building strong, resilient and locally led eye health care systems, which are determined, governed and managed by local partners to benefit local people.
With a strong commitment to environmental sustainability, we have incorporated climate resilience into the design of our clinics. The Regional Eye Centre in Solomon Islands operates on solar power, rainwater harvesting, and an independent sewerage system.
Other notable projects include the Vanuatu National Eye Centre, which was upgraded in 2018 with solar power, low-carbon building materials, and cyclone and earthquake-proofing, and the solar-power system installed at the Madang Eye Clinic in Papua New Guinea in 2023.
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