After the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004, ICEE was the first organisation to provide directed eye care to the stricken coastal regions.

Since then 26,699 people have had their eyes examined and 23,254 spectacles have been issued at no cost to the patients. Additionally, ICEE has provided eye car education in refraction and primary eye care to 11 Sri Lanka health workers. Several of these ICEE students are now working independently to address the eye car requirements of the needy people in their communities. In the near future they will be working in purpose-build ICEE Vision Centres that are to be built in several regional areas.

ICEE has extended its Sri Lankan activities and conducted its eye clinics in the tea plantations located in the mountainous interior of Sri Lanka. The people who live and work in this region of Sri Lanka are amongst some of the most underprivileged.

The eye clinics have been a remarkable success, providing thousands of people with eye care. The ICEE programme aims to achieve our sustainable eye care in the region.