Experiences in rural Kenya: Addressing lack of knowledge

Building an eye centre in an area where you know there is great need for eye services is not enough. We began our work in Kwale district eighteen years ago after a feasibility study estimated that there were ten thousand people who were blind, thirty thousand with low vision, and about the same number with significant eye disease in the district. We knew that none of them were accessing eye care, but on our first day we saw only one eye patient!