Why We Are Here
- More than 180,000 Cambodians are blind.
- 10,000 Cambodians suffer of avoidable blindness each year.
- 90% of blindness is avoidable. 79% is curable and 11% is preventable.
- Three-quarters of blindness is due to cataracts, and the rest is due to uncorrected vision, glaucoma, corneal scarring and pterygium.
- Cambodia has one of the lowest numbers of medical eye specialists per capita in the world.
- 10% of the population lives below the poverty line; more than 40% of Cambodians earn $ 2,00 per day.
- Most of the poor people live in rural areas where there is either no or limited access to eye care.
- Based on WHO data, the Perkins Institute (2020) estimates that there are approximately 15,100 children and adolescents between the ages of 0 and 24 with visual impairments and multiple disabilities in Cambodia. These are estimates based on population and prevalence data.
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