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 Video, view the work that the SEP team is doing in Sumba. “The Other Side of Sumba” – Sumba Eye Program 2011 Link : https://youtu.be/cmNxgoJp_H8 Photos Donated motor bike for the SEP nurses to use The SEP Team returns to Sumba August 2018 Photography by Gail Hoole
Our SEP team screening vision in a remote village, on the verandah of a typical hut , although with galvanised metal roof. Traditional houses have these peaked shaped roofs, but with thatched grass instead. These villages are quite often only accessible by motorbikes, which the Sumba Eye Program have funded with generous support from Optometry Giving Sight,(now the Brien Holden... Read more
KODI Village _ Sumba 948 people screened 921 spectacles dispensed Intense one on one teaching and enhancement of the skills of the Eye Care Nurses Nefry, Sanni, Elsiana and Jovin The whole SEP team visited this remote 10,000 year old village.... Read more
Andirson Gawo Mata About Me and My Story (December 2018) I am Andy, my complete name is Andirson Gawo Mata. I was born in Modu, April 21st 1999, Waikabubak –West Sumba. I come from little family with two brothers and two sisters.My father named Nicodemus Dasalaku and my mother named Elisabeth Manu... Read more
“Elsi and Jovin , our newest Eye Care Nurse recruits to the Sumba Eye Program, spent most of October with the John Fawcett Foundation , in Bali. Time was spent developing and learning new eyecare skills both at the Bali Eye Hospital and in the field in Bali. They were supported by funds from the Sumba Eye Program ,Rotary Glenferrie... Read more
“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
