The Sumba Eye Program, established in 2007, is targeted at delivering eye care services to the people of Sumba and building the capacity of the local and regional health staff to provide effective eye care for the community in Nusa Tenggara Timur.
All donations to the Sumba Eye Program will be used to purchase the medical supplies and equipment needed to deliver cataract surgery, perform eye examinations and train local doctors and nurses.
Welcome to the Sumba Eye Program 2015 Video, view the work that the SEP team is doing in Sumba. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— “The Other Side of Sumba” – Sumba Eye Program 2011
“Another successful and exciting combined Surgical and vision screening trip to Sumba accomplished. During the first week of August the Optometry Team and its workers screened 1234 people,1146 people were given specs , 137 people were referred to the Ophthalmology Team for opinions and 128 procedures were performed.94 of these were on “blind” cataracts.Many of the other... Read more
https://balijournalophth.org/index.php/bjo/article/view/19 For more information and to download the full PDF article of the Bali Journal Of Opthomology use the above link. The Sumba Eye Program (SEP) is an outreach clinical eye service that delivers specialist eye services to the population in Sumba, Nusa Tenggara Timur, and training support for Indonesian eye health personnel. We report the baseline clinical findings from... Read more
Konfir Kabo and his wife Monica are taking 47 boxes of equipment, including the Tango Laser , as we speak to Bali. It was all hands on deck at 5 am at Tulla and with Garuda’s help , will be in Sumba when the SEP SEP Team arrives Saturday week. ... Read more
The SEP team and its supporters welcome the arrival of Marcho, son to Johanes (John) Wawo and Nefry one the teams talented and hard working Eye Care Nurses. Marcho arrived last week, Mum and baby are well. Everyone at the SEP team is eagerly looking forward to meeting Marcho in August when they return to Sumba for screenings and mentoring... Read more
The New Tango Laser will be used on the next visit to Sumba later this year. This laser will not only treat post cataract surgery issues, but will treat those with glaucoma , where the use of drops to lower pressure is very problematical in rural Sumba. Funding has come mostly through generous grants by Kew and Glenferrie Rotary Clubs... Read more
Brad Heuvel from printing company “BKH Print and Sign Solutions” has been very generous in his time and expertise to help develop this new Numeral Letter Chart that really helps speed up screenings. Most of the Sumba population knows numerals and are numerate–but the majority are illiterate. Brad has recently donated 80 charts to the Sumba Eye Program. These charts... Read more
. Dr.Adelina Poli from UNHAS in Sulawesi checking the eyes of a young Sumbanese child on our recent trip to Sumba- this collaboration with the Indonesian professionals is pivotal to the success of the SEP. In Anakalang in Central Sumba,1103 people had their vision screened , 1101 spectacles were dispensed and 126 surgical procedures were done , mostly on people... Read more
The SEP team leaving Tullamarine for another week in Sumba. Arrived safely in Bali and off to the Island of Sumba today. Although a lot of our equipment is over there, we still had 30 boxes of consumables and equipment to take. ... Read more
First week of April 2016 saw The Team head to Sumba for mentoring and teaching camp. Janine Hobson and Chris Katapodis (Optometrists) headed to Sumba and provided lectures and one on one teaching to Nefry,Sani and the Nurses from the Sumba Foundation. Mark Ellis, Peter Stewart and Peter Lewis detoured to Sulawesi – a large island north of Bali –... Read more
AUGUST VISIT 2015 696 people screened : many others screened in remote villages by the Optom/Hasanuddin University Teams 68 Cataract and Pterygium operations performed : 6/60 blindness or worse levels 605 spectacles dispensed Under much pressure to keep our equipment excess down we were not able to bring as many cataract operating kits and we had to leave behind a... Read more
