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The ICEE Aboriginal Vision NSW Program aims to alleviate avoidable blindness and visual impairment in the population of 148,200 Aboriginals in NSW.

The ICEE Cambodia Program aims to contribute to the elimination of blindness due to uncorrected refractive error by establishing sustainable eye care that will provide services to the 13,996,000 people of Cambodia.

To learn more about the work ICEE does don't forget to visit www.icee.org.

 

Colwyn comes from the small island of Motalava in Torba Province, the northern-most part of Vanuatu. Working for the Vanuatu Health Department for almost 20 years, Colwyn has spent most of that time assisting in the operating theatre.

Because of his advanced nursing skills, Colwyn was chosen to join the Solomon Islands ophthalmologist, Dr John Szetu, for eye care training in the neighbouring Solomon Islands. On his return to Vanuatu, Colwyn was appointed to Nurse In-Charge at the nation’s first eye clinic based n the Northern District Hospital of Santo.

A further nine months of in service training with Dr Szetu in Vanuatu has seen Colwyn become the most skilled eye care nurse in Vanuatu. A lot has happened in a short space of time in the eye care program, and now there are two major eye clinics and 11 trained eye nurses based throughout the country.

To harness the skills of the trained eye nurses and to continue delivering eye care services to Vanuatu’s population, ICEE has worked with Colwyn and his colleagues to develop the eye nurses’ teaching skills so that they can go on to train other general nurses in primary eye care. With the support of ICEE, Colwyn feels confident to continue his teaching and training of other nurses.