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Village
Vision
All the rural outreach and community eye health programmes
are carried out by ICARE under the banner of Village Vision
programmes. These include service delivery, training and
operations research projects. So far the programmes have
been confined to Andhra Pradesh. However, with the experience
gained from such projects, the programmes will be extended
to other parts of the country and to other developing countries.
The Community Assisted
and Financed Eye care (CAFE) Project
The Community assisted and
Financed Eye Care (CAFE) project was conceptualized as a
pilot project to explore the modalities of delivering community
assisted and financed eye care, and to find an entry point
for the delivery of other health-care services and programs
to an adopted community, based on the principle of a self-payment
scheme. Under the scheme, the whole community makes a nominal
contribution of Re. 1 per person, per month, and the entire
family is registered under the scheme. This money goes into
a fund to serve the whole registered community. Whoever
requires eye care is given the benefit of a package of services,
including a secondary level of eye care free of cost.
Under the CAFE scheme, 54,000
persons in 18 villages under Nidadavole, Chagallu and Devarapalle
mandals in West Godavari district were enumerated in 2001.
Till now approximately 32,000 persons have been registered,
with 13,500 persons seen as outpatients and 150 surgeries
performed.
Eyesight International, Canada
has provided the support for CAFE, while L V Prasad Eye
Institute is the implementing agency. Smt Rajeswari Ramakrishnan
Lions Eye Hospital, Nidadavole, is the service provider.
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