Submitted by: Andrea Castro

Country: Colombia

Organisation: Alcon

Category: Amateur

Caption: Alcon In Action: corporate social activity

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Sherene Vazhappilly

Country: Canada

Organisation: Blink Eyewear

Category: Amateur

Caption: On a chilly day in Camaná, Peru, we set up our mission eye clinic in an abandoned gymnasium. Makeshift tents serve as examination rooms and benches as dispensary shelves. Hundreds of Peruvians line up for free eye examinations. Spanish and English words fly around as I leave my tent to take a break from a hectic morning examining patients. In a nearby tent, I encounter my colleague performing direct ophthalmoscopy with great focus. He leans back and she shakily reaches out to hold his hand. He sits down in front of her and smiles. “Ojos sanos”, he says in broken Spanish. Healthy eyes. She breathes relief and tears stream down her face. “Reading glasses will help you read your Bible again”. She beams and whispers in gratitude, “Gracias, doctor.” Thank you, doctor. God bless you.

Being in the optometry profession is more than prescribing glasses to help patients see 20/20. It is being in a position to examine and educate patients about their eyes, alleviate their fears, help them achieve their goals, and in the best cases, assist them in regaining something that they once thought was lost. As optometrists, we understand the importance of maximizing visual function so our patients are able to perform their daily activities, interact with the people around them and maintain a sense of who they are in this world. Our duties go far beyond 20/20, as we not only examine eyes but take care of our patients’ visual needs as well, to the best of our abilities and knowledge.

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Submitted by: En Lu

Country: China

Organisation: He eye Specialist Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: happy after operation

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Submitted by: Okpare Akpobome

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: Nigerian Airforce medical missions

Category: Professional

Caption: Rural Medical outreach to Internally Displaced Persons and victims of Boko haran, in a bid to ensure everyone is captured by the World Health Organisation’s Right To Sight.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: antony mano

Country: India

Organisation: India Vision institute

Category: Amateur

Caption: IVI screening at a rural location.

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Submitted by: Rajan Shrestha

Country: Nepal

Organisation: BP Eye Foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: My hand, My vision. Vision First

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Submitted by: Carlos Augusto Alfonso Rojas

Country: Colombia

Organisation: UNIVERSIDAD DEL SINU

Category: Amateur

Caption: Estudiantes de Optometría de diferentes semestres de la Universidad del Sinú en Colombia, unidos bajo una pasión.

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Submitted by: Pem Dorji Golay

Country: Bhutan

Organisation: Jomotsangkha BHU, Health sector

Category: Amateur

Caption: Primary eye care services

#monastic institution#phakchog

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Submitted by: Md. Mosaib Omaer

Country: India

Organisation: C L Gupta Eye Institute

Category: Amateur

Caption: A 6-year-old boy with Traumatic Aphakia in the left eye, happy with his glasses.

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Submitted by: Saumya Yadav

Country: India

Organisation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Category: Amateur

Caption: Saina , first day after keratoplasty surgery for corneal opacity associated with congenital glaucoma

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Submitted by: Mikhail Kapychka

Country: Belarus

Organisation: MSU

Category: Professional

Caption: A boy with a disability and with a visual disability for the first time in his life participates in sports competitions in a charity camp for children with health problems. Belarus

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Rajan Shrestha

Country: Nepal

Organisation: BP Eye Foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Happy to see again, with Nurse

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Submitted by: Philip Lus

Country: Papua New Guinea

Organisation: Gaimbang Optical

Category: Amateur

Caption: Elderly man from the other side of Sepik River, East Sepik Province got his eye screened and received a pair of distance glass from Philip whole soley worked under Gaimbang Optical.

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Submitted by: FRANCISCO CONTE

Country: CHILE

Organisation: CLINICA LAS CONDES

Category: Amateur

Caption: HA NAM, VIETNAM

Project Vietnam charity mission in Vietnam

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Andrea Riddell

Country: Australia

Organisation: BHVI

Category: Amateur

Caption: A young girl at a school screening having her eyes examined by a 4th year student from Makerere University, Uganda.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Sandy Winkle

Country: Australia

Organisation: Hobby Travel Photographer

Category: Amateur

Caption: I can\'t get used to these new glasses!

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Submitted by: CHINMOY BISWAS

Country: India

Organisation: SELF

Category: Amateur

Caption: FOR EYES ONLY

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Submitted by: mark anthony agtay

Country: Philippines

Organisation: N/A

Category: Professional

Caption: A mother help her daughter to make sure her eyes preserved after she suffer from to much use of mobile.Now a day many children in young age exposed in many kind of gadget that effect the vision of their eyes.

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Submitted by: Dr Helen

Country: Kenya

Organisation: Kwale District Eye Centre

Category: Amateur

Caption: Happy Margaret -after surgery

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Submitted by: Desiree Murray

Country: Trinidad and Tobago

Organisation: The University of the West Indies

Category: Amateur

Caption: Goldmann applanation tonometry

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Submitted by: Francis Unachukwu

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: Nigerian Optometric Association

Category: Amateur

Caption: Refraction for a low vision patient

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Submitted by: Dr Helen

Country: Kenya

Organisation: Kwale District Eye Centre

Category: Amateur

Caption: Happy patient after surgery

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Submitted by: Nguyễn Hữu Thông

Country: Vietnam

Organisation: Alina Vision Vietnam

Category: Professional

Caption: I see it clear

a school student try power lens in a school camp.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Rajan Shrestha

Country: Nepal

Organisation: BP Eye Foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Life without Vision, Being ready for school for the first time

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Sandy Winkle

Country: Australia

Organisation: Hobby Travel Photographer

Category: Amateur

Caption: Nomadic Life on the fringes of Pushkar

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Андрей Калянов

Country: Россия

Organisation: Фотограф

Category: Amateur

Caption: Давай снимем кино?

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: ayse turan

Email: turanayse@gmail.com

Country: Turkey

Organisation: Ankara City Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: The first Rally in Turkey to start 2020 Vision Screening programs openned with 1379 young students screened in 21 minutes at 20 stations under the auspices of Dr. Ayse Turan by their trained teachers. This rally will continue during 2019 and 2020 until the completion of VISION2020 to reach full coverage of 0-21 years youth. We are grateful for the VISION 2020 initiative takers. Go ahead !

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Submitted by: Arun Sethi

Country: India

Organisation: Arunodaya Charitable Trust

Category: Amateur

Caption: The Walk of Sight!

Documented a patient after a successful cataract surgery by the very experienced Dr REENA SETHI

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: MD.MIZANUR RAHMAN

Country: Bangladesh

Organisation: DR.K.ZAMAN BNSB EYE HOSPITA, MYMENSING, BANGLADESH

Category: Professional

Caption: \"Dream to see eyesight\"

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: FRANCISCO CONTE

Country: CHILE

Organisation: CLINICA LAS CONDES

Category: Amateur

Caption: HA NAM, VIETNAM

Project Vietnam charity mission

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Geoff Oliver Bugbee

Country: United States

Organisation: Orbis

Category: Professional

Caption: A child with a mature cataract waits to be seen at an Orbis International screening examination at Menelik II Eye Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The following day he had successful surgery on the Flying Eye Hospital.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ

Country: New Zealand

Organisation: The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ

Category: Professional

Caption: After a successful eye operation, Unasa joyously laughs with his wife who he can see for the first time in three years. Photo taken by James Ensing-Trussel in Savai\'i, Samoa.

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Submitted by: Sumon Francis Gomes

Country: Bangladesh

Organisation: Orbis International Bangladesh

Category: Amateur

Caption: Eye Screening and spectacle is helping women garment workers increasing their productivity at work as well as to contribute in the economy of Bangladesh.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: SALDI ISWANDI

Country: Indonesia

Organisation: Helen Keller International

Category: Amateur

Caption: The right of everyone to see, we too ...

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Submitted by: Franklin Foreman Torres

Country: Honduras

Organisation: Foreman\'s Photography

Category: Amateur

Caption: Don Mime Espínoza (Conocido cariñosamente) en el municipio de San Marcos, Ocotepeque, él siempre caminaba todos los dias junto a su yegua, desde su finca, ubicada arriba del rio suntulin, hacia su casa, ahora por su avanzada edad ya no puede salir. La fotografía se convirtió en parte de la historia de este humilde Sanmarqueño

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Submitted by: fauzia Aziz

Country: Pakistan

Organisation: LRBT

Category: Amateur

Caption: Children with their mother at home.

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Submitted by: amitava chandra

Country: India

Organisation: Govt. service

Category: Amateur

Caption: These two are in a hide-out to avoid their angry-mother after spoiling the entire paint-tumbler on their own faces

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Suzannah Bell

Country: UK

Organisation: Moorfields Eye Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: Child plays with mother after surgery for bilateral congenital cataract in Nepal

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Submitted by: Arjun Shrestha

Country: Nepal

Organisation: Butwal Lions Eye Hospital

Category: Professional

Caption: I do, my eyes check-up regularly.

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Submitted by: mansour mohsen

Country: المملكة العربية السعودية

Organisation: No

Category: Professional

Caption: Eye operation

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Submitted by: Shashank Pinnamaneni

Country: India

Organisation: Dr.psims&rf

Category: Amateur

Caption: Just don't Leave a Will,Leave a VISION.

Donate eyes.

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Submitted by: Mouneb taim

Country: Syria Damascus Ghouta

Organisation: Freelance Photographer

Category: Amateur

Caption: The injured child

The child lost his eye as a result of the air strikes that hit Syria, which hit his house, and lost his eye after the fall of one of the rockets.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: CHINMOY BISWAS

Country: India

Organisation: SELF

Category: Amateur

Caption: FOR THE EYE ONLY

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Submitted by: ibtesam hamel

Country: Iraq

Organisation: MoH

Category: Amateur

Caption: Examining the sight of displaced people in Iraq

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Submitted by: Subhash Bhatta

Country: Nepal

Organisation: Geta Eye Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: uncovering hidden blindness - postoperative vision check up in surgical eye camp

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Submitted by: fauzia Aziz

Country: Pakistan

Organisation: LRBT

Category: Amateur

Caption: Starting the day with a smile...

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Submitted by: Mouneb taim

Country: Syria Damascus Ghouta

Organisation: Freelance Photographer

Category: Amateur

Caption: The injured child

The child lost his eye as a result of the air strikes that hit Syria, which hit his house, and lost his eye after the fall of one of the rockets.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Zeynep Acaroglu

Country: Turkey

Organisation: Municipality

Category: Amateur

Caption: Turkish Etimesgut Municipality celebrates WSD for one week and invited the First Lady to the Celebrations for the First time in 20 years. 200 000 children will be screened and evaluated for their sight and eye glasses provided...

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Submitted by: Salahuddin Jokhio

Country: Pakistan

Organisation: Al Ibrahim hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: Optometrist

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Submitted by: Sunil Kumar Mishra

Country: India

Organisation: Kalinga Eye Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: Vision First, then other tests

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