Ethiopia

Girl with OneDollarGlasses | ©Barbara DeCarlo

ODG Brazil - Facts

Started work: 2014
More than 200,000 vision tests performed
Over 62,000 people provided with glasses
25 employees on site
Main location: São Paolo
Eye camps in the favelas and the Amazon
3 social-optics shops
Project name: Renovatio

Basic data - Brazil

Population: 210 million
Population density: 25,6 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitant: USD 1,868
22% of school drop-outs due to children's sight defects

ODG Bolivia - Facts

Started work: 2014
Over 66,000 people provided with glasses
Over 100,000 vision tests performed
25 local employees
Main location: Santa Cruz
Eye camps with mobile optical unit
Central production for South America: 75,000 frames manufactured
Project name: Lentes al Instante (Bolivia)

Basic data - Bolivia

Population: 12 million
Population density: 10,8 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitant: USD 3,625

ODG Malawi - Facts

Started working: 2014
Over 44,000 people provided with glasses
More than 135,000 vision tests performed
Main location: Lilongwe
34 employees on site
Around 1,200 eye-camps
Four eyewear centers
Project name: GoodVision (Malawi)

Basic data - Malawi

Population: 20 million
Population density: 203 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitant: USD 431 (rank 174 of 189)

ODG Burkina Faso - Facts

Started working: 2013
Over 87,000 people provided with glasses
More than 222,000 vision tests performed
70 employees on site
Central production in Ouagadougou (capital)
More than 20 spectacle centres as permanent contact points
Project name: GoodVision (Burkina Faso)

Basic data - Burkina Faso

Population: 20 million
Population density: 76 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitant: USD 790 (rank 182 of 189)

ODG India - Facts

Started working: 2017
Over 40,000 people provided with glasses
More than 120,000 vision tests performed
about 90 employees on site
Headquarter in the state of Odisha
Over 2,700 eye camps with small mobile teams
Project name: CARE Netram

Basic data - India

Population: 1.4 billion
Population density: 464 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitant: USD 1,965

ODG Peru - Facts

Started working: 2019
Over 8,000 people provided with glasses
Main location: Lima
Eye-camps in the poor outskirts of Lima and numerous peruvian regions
Project name: Lentes al Instante (Perú)

Basic data - Peru

Population: 33 million
Population density: 25 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitant: USD 6,700
About one third of the population lives in the region Lima
Peru is geographically the third largest country in South America

ODG Kenya - Facts

Started working: 2014
Main location: Nairobi
Project name: Tuone Vizuri Miwani, GoodVision (Kenia)

Basic data - Kenya

Population: 50 million
Population density: 95 inhabitants per km²
PDP per inhabitant: USD 2,000

ODG Myanmar - Facts

Started working: 2018
Over 10,000 people provided with glasses
Headquarters: Pyimana Township NayPyiTaw
Project responsibility: OneDollarGlasses Switzerland
2019: Foundation of an own organization
Project name: GoodVision (Myanmar)

Basic data - Myanmar

Population: 53 million
Population density: 82 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitant: USD 1,400 (147 of 189)

Ehtiopia - Facts

Started working: 2013
Working with Alem Katema e.V. Partnership
Main location: Alem Katema, Region Amhara
One Dollar Glasses production and optical tests

Basic Data - Ehtiopia

Population: 100 million inhabitants
Population density: 95 inhabitants per km²
GDP per inhabitan: 950 USD

Ethiopia: More than 80 languages

With over 110 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world. In the multinational state in which over 80 different languages are spoken, the majority of people live from agriculture.

At the end of 2013, OneDollarGlasses trained employees of the ENAT hospital in Alem Katema in cooperation with the association “Partnership with Alem Katema e.V.” in the manufacture of OneDollarGlasses and the performance of eye tests. Alem Katema is a small town in the Amhara region. Thanks to the joint commitment, the entire ophthalmological care in the ENAT hospital has made considerable progress.

Landscape at the Jemma trench, Amhara region | © Rosina Kefer-Lüdeke

Production of glasses | © Helmut Schmidt

Training | © Helmut Schmidt

Eye camps and education

Since then, eye camps and awareness campaigns have been carried out in Alem Katema. It is very important to educate the local population because people who wear glasses are often stigmatized as disabled and there is often a lack of awareness of uncorrected ametropia.

Theoretical training of clinic staff | © Helmut Schmidt

Training in ophthalmology

In the meantime, one of our first eyewear manufacturers was able to successfully complete his bachelor’s degree in ophthalmology after more than three years of training. This means that eye diseases can now also be treated at the ENAT Hospital.