Project - BCBC
Bangladesh Childhood Blindness Campaign (BCBC)
- Programme
components: - 1. Naogaon District Comprehensive Child Sight Programme
2. Child Sight Network (CSN) Training Programme - Activities:
- Comprehensive Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programme to ensure early detection, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, education and self help activities to control blindness and to establish the rights of blind children
- Duration:
- 3 years, July 2006 to June 2009
- Supported by:
- International Centre for Eye Health, London and Muslim Aid UK
Components
- Naogaon District Comprehensive Child Sight Programme: To develop a comprehensive programme to ensure early detection, prevention, treatment, education and self help activities, to ensure the control of blindness and to establish the rights of blind children in Naogaon district of Bangladesh as a new model for service delivery for children with blindness and disability.
- Child Sight Network (CSN) Training Programme: to develop and strengthen the Child Sight Network in training member organizations to deliver primary eye care for children as a model for partnership in prevention of blindness.
Activities
- 240 blind children and their families will receive rehabilitation support.
- 600 blind children traced from rural communities by the trained key informants.
- 1,200 visually impaired children will be helped through eye examination and treatment.
- 200 blind children will receive sight restoring surgery
- 4,800 children with common eye diseases will be treated with eye drops, spectacles and other necessary treatments.
- 60 schoolteachers trained in inclusive education for blind children.
- 240 blind children will be educated in the mainstream schools through inclusive education.
- Model school practice in 10 schools will be developed, supported and sustained
- Localized advocacy among Parents, community and decision makers for education, rehabilitation, and rights of visually impaired children.
- 200 self-help group members trained through training programmes.
- 60 Trainers will be trained on Primary Eye care through Training of the Trainers programme.
- 1,800 volunteers trained in Primary Eye Care for Children’s Eye.
- 800 key informants trained in finding blind children from rural communities.
- 4,000 health education materials will be distributed.
- 4 district partnership workshops organized for childhood blindness control.
