About Us
AFRICA CATARACT AND EYE FOUNDATION
Africa Cataract And Eye Foundation Founded in July 2009
The need to contribute something back to the World, in Countries with no infrastructural Development, Basic amenities, No Proper Health Care Facility and especially High rate of Poverty is the principal reason for this work of intervention.
To eliminate avoidable blindness by targeting cataract blindness, the leading cause by far in most developing economies of the world.
ACEF`S intervention model is outreach based. It is fully supported by a dedicated team of eye care professionals supported on land by requisite equipments (mobile theatre ambulance and a bus to ferry cataract patients from and back home again after surgery at the first base hospital in Benin city. The work plan for the first 5years is to eradicate the cataract backlog in the 1,000,000 population in the selected target area
