The ICEE Vision Centre and national office aims to reduce avoidable blindness and vision impairment due to uncorrected refracted error.

Nationally, Cambodia has an existing network of 19 Eye Units based in its provinces.

On June 9 2009, senior executives from international bank, Standard Chartered, were in Durban with project partners ICEE and the Department of Health to celebrate the progress of the ‘Giving Sight to Africa’ project which is funded through the Bank’s global ‘Seeing is Believing’ campaign.

A study published in the latest edition of Bulletin of the World Health Organization (June 2009) estimates the global economy loses $269 billion in productivity annually due to vision impairment.

Seeing clearly and taking care of your eyes is an important part of a healthy future for everyone according to leading eye care experts who say that 670 million people need eye care.