Context

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the risk of blindness in children is higher in developing countries with little access to health care.

 

 

Supported project

In 2020-2021, L'OCCITANE South Korea and the L'OCCITANE Foundation have decided to renew its support to the NGO Heart to Heart in order to help them run a school-based eye project in Cambodia. 

For this project, the school based eye screeening will be done by trained teachers and will be conducted in 410 schools. Children suspected to have eye problems will receive basic treatments with eye health specialists or further treatments at the eye clinic.

Results

Budget 61,580 euros

Results 481,134 beneficiaries

History

NGO supported since 2017

After having supported Heart to Heart International in order to promote eye health care and eye disease in schools in Malawi and Tanzania since 2017, L'OCCITANE South Korea & the L'OCCITANE Foundation have decided to keep supporting the NGO in order to conduct the same project in Cambodia. 

 

More information

Testimonies

"My name is pheak phanuk, I AM STUDYING IN GRADE é AT tOUL kROS pRIMARY sCHOOL, and i am living in Siemeap province. I was born with blurred vision, and this symptom implied a lot of difficulties for me: it was really hard to study, to make self-study at home or to help my family with some housework. MY FAMILY COULND'T take me to the hospital because we are poor, and because our village is really far away. 
But today i got glasses, i am very happy to see everything clearly and smoothly around me. I can see the whiteboard, tables, my friend's faces and nature so clearly. I will enjoy my study and i want to be a businessman to support my family. I would like to say big thanks to L'OCCITANE Foundation and Heart to Heart Foundation for bringing me a new-born vision."

Pheak Phanuk, student at Toul Kros Primary School, Siemeap Province

A young korean boy wearing glasses for the first time.

"My name is Seng Vanda, I am studying in grade 3 of Hunsen SvayChek Primary School, I am living in Siemeap Province. I cannot remember when my eyes started to cause a blurred vision. When I strated to go to school my teacher noticed my eye condition, because I could not read letters on the blackboard. I talked about it to my family  but they assumed I was joking about it. Until I got a vision screening by a school teacher through Heart to Heart foundation project, so my family also realized my real condition now. Thanks to my new glasses, I am very happy to see everything clearly ! I want to say thanks to L'OCCITANE Foundation and Heart to Heart Foundation for giving me and my family a smile again cause I can see the real beautiful nature around us. I can play very well now. "

-Seng Vanda, student is Grade 3 of Hunsen SvayChek Primary School, Siemeap Province. 

Young korean boy receiving glasses for the first time