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Visualiza

last updated Nov 16, 2011

Overview

Implementation Partner(s): 
SEVA Foundation, International Eye Foundation, Christian Blind Mission, Lions Clubs International, VISION 2020
Legal Status: 
Private (for-profit)
Year Launched: 
1997
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Funders: 
The Clinton Foundation

Scale

Number of Clients Served: 
Screens over 30,000 children a year
Summary: 

Visualiza is a Guatemala-based social enterprise which operates clinics providing high quality inexpensive eye care through a high volume model.

Program goals/rationale: 

There are approximately 12,728,000 people living in Guatemala. While there is limited data available on blindness, estimates suggest that there are over 80,000 who are currently blind from cataracts and thousands more children, women and men go blind every year. This blindness could be cured by a simple surgery.

Key program components: 

It works to educate the public about eye care while also providing quality eye care services to the poor, focusing on preventable blindness, cataracts and ametropia. It performs about 30% of all the cataract surgeries in the country with only 2% of the nation’s ophthalmologists, and is the only institution providing eye care screening of children aged 5-15.

This family-run network includes three eye hospitals and several smaller eye care centers in development.

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