Eye Care in Kwahu-Tafo

 

A generous donation has enabled Friends of Tafo to provide eye care in Kwahu-Tafo.

 

A previous initiative by the Kwahu-Tafo Youngsters' Club (a group of enterprising young people from the town who are interested in organising projects for the good of the community) led to a visit of a mobile eye clinic to the town. This was the result of local people contributing time and money, match funded by Friends of Tafo. The mobile clinic examined 500 patients and established the need for eye care among the town's population.

 

The donation of £4000 from the Swedish Bombus Foundation in 2004 has given Friends of Tafo the great opportunity to address the many issues relating to visual impairment within the town. We have already been able to send a number of patients to Accra for examination and consultation following the original visit of the eye clinic. The funding will also cover the resulting necessary operations for eminently treatable eye illnesses, and prescription spectacles.

 

We will also use the funding to cover regular visits by the mobile eye clinic which will be organised by the Youngsters' Club.

 

Incurably blind people in Kwahu-Tafo are being offered braille equipment and classes in order to promote their inclusion in society. There is also the chance now to send visually impaired children to a school for the blind within the region.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solomon Adame, blind for ten

years, needs training and

business start-up support

to replace his former livelihood which was moulding plastic

buckets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This young boy's vision is

impaired following an accident

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abena Tiatia is 84 and has

minimal sight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further, the donation will be used to fund skills training for the visually impaired in basket work and weaving. Business support including tools and a loan for materials purchasing will be included. This will enable these people to earn an income, enabling them to become more independent. 

    Friends of Tafo
Chair: Humphrey Barclay, Development Chief (Nkosuohene) of Kwahu-Tafo
Secretary: Georgina Owen; Treasurer: Benjamin Ntim; Trustees: Crispin Leyser,
Jules Leyser, Daisy East, Lizzie Pomeroy, Robert Taylor;
Committee Members: Colena Abbosh, Jessica Dallyn, John Ofori, Peggy Rose Cradduck