Ravi – a new look!
Ravi and his father came to an eye screening organised by IRIS & the Eyecare Foundation in Hatton, Sri Lanka in August. Ravi had lost his right eye due to an infection and the prosthetic eye he had been provided with was too small and kept falling out. IRIS & the Eyecare Foundation arranged for [...]
Swiss Foundations rally behind IRIS
Swiss charitable foundations of the République et Canton de Genève, Frères de nos Frères, Fondation Albatross, Giving Women and Fondation Tellus Viva all renewed grants in 2011 to support IRIS blindness prevention programmes in Sri Lanka. IRIS continues to stage monthly eye screening, refraction and cataract surgery camps with a number of local partner organisations. [...]
Eye care for elders living on tea plantations
During the summer, with funds provided by Carigest SA of Switzerland, IRIS ran an eye screening, refraction & surgery programme for elders living on tea plantations in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. People living on tea plantations are amongst the poorest of poor people and are those who continue to live in plantation accommodation [...]
Nepal – new eye camp programme
IRIS sponsored six micro-surgical eye camps being staged in remote, rural areas of Nepal during August & September 2011 for the benefit of poor people. The camps were organised in conjunction with Nepal Netra Jyoti Sang, the coordinating, umbrella body for eye care in Nepal. In Gorka District, a woman aged 104, blind in both [...]
Welcome to IRIS' website
"International Resources for the Improvement of Sight" is a charity founded in 1996 by Michele Claudel and John Stewart. The charity specializes in prevention of blindness and restoration of sight and as of September 2011, has performed 237,211 eye examinations, 77,685 sight restoring surgeries and distributed 40,466 pairs of spectacles.
Bienvenue sur le site d'IRIS
«Ressources internationales pour l’amélioration de la vue» est une petite organisation non gouvernementale indépendante créée en 1996 par Michèle Claudel et John Stewart. Elle est essentiellement active dans les domaines de la prévention de la cécité et de la restauration de la vue.