"Every Five Seconds One Person in This World Goes Blind and A child goes Blind Every Minute"
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POB Foundation is a registered charity organization working for the prevention & treatment of blindness with in Pakistan and across the globe. The current magnitude of visual disability and its exponential increase over the coming decades has potentially far reaching social, economic and quality of life implications for the affected individuals their families and communities.
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Avoidable blindness is a major cause of unnecessary human suffering often leading to poverty, social exclusion and early death. Visual disability along with the other disabilities is a major barrier for development. The knowledge and technology to make a difference in the lives of affected millions is available. The elimination of avoidable blindness is both a social as well as moral imperative. |
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Focusing the main causes of avoidable blindness we are providing free of cost community based, diagnostic & surgical services in remote and deprived areas. Other than the services of outpatient examination and cataract surgeries with IOL implantations POB Foundation is also making efforts for the human resource development through professional training and motivation.
We extend our services for all the human beings in any area of the world irrespective of race, religion, gender, locality and community with a firm commitment of services without any discrimination. We are looking for the individuals, NG0s and Government agencies to collaborate for the elimination of avoidable causes of blindness.
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Vision
“A world in which no one is needlessly blind & and where those with unavoidable blindness can achieve the full potential of life”
Mission
“To work for the elimination of the avoidable causes of blindness regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender and nationality of our beneficiaries”
Objectives
•To provide free of cost, state of the art eye care services in the remote and deprived areas.
•To make arrangements for the prevention, education and treatment of eye diseases.
•To establish Tertiary care eye institutes for the treatment of major eye diseases, professional training and research work in the field of ophthalmology.
•To organize, arrange and manage refresher courses with latest medical advancements for the eye-specialists of various categories.
•To establish community based, sustainable and quality oriented eye care centres.
•To enter into arrangements, agreements, contracts and collaborations with any governmental or nongovernmental organization or authority, local or otherwise, any person or company that may promote the objective of the organization.
•To do all lawful and charitable things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objectives of the trust.
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According to WHO, there are about 37 million blind people in the world and this number increases by 1 to 2 million in every year. Blindness has an enormous personal, social and economic cost limiting the education and life choices of otherwise healthy people thus placing a significant burden on family, community and health care services. 90 % of blind people live in the developing countries. Pakistan has a total number of about 3 million blind people and there is an annual increase of 0.15 million people. 80 % of this blindness is absolutely preventable provide the required management facilities are available at affordable cost. Cataract is the major cause of preventable blindness. The treatment cost is very low as compare to the threatening effects.
POB Foundation is a registered charity organization working for the prevention & treatment of blindness with in Pakistan and across the globe.
The current magnitude of visual disability and its exponential increase over the coming decades has potentially far reaching social, economic and quality of life implications for the affected individuals their families and communities.
To learn more kindly visit POB official website at http://pobtrust.org
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