Submitted by: Klinik Mata EDC Group

Country: Indonesia

Organisation: Ophthalmology

Category: Amateur

Caption: Selamat menikmati berakhir pekan bersama orang orang tercinta...

Semoga Allah senantiasa memberikan berkah , kesehatan serta keselamatan.

💗💗💗

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Submitted by: Bruce Redman

Country: Australia

Organisation: Brien Holden Vision Institute

Category: Professional

Caption: A small Ugandan boy concentrates on the eye chart

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

Submitted by: Dr Srinivas Marmamula

Country: India

Organisation: L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE

Category: Amateur

Caption: Addressing URE Challenge in remote locations - Vision for the Vulnerable

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

Submitted by: amitava chandra

Country: India

Organisation: Govt. service

Category: Amateur

Caption: The devotee is totally submissive through her eyes on sun-god while offering prayer

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: Student for universal eye health coverage

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

Submitted by: Ellen Crystal

Country: Canada

Organisation: Seva Canada

Category: Professional

Caption: A young girl with her mother at an outreach eye screening camp in Adet, Ethiopia. The majority of the world’s blind are women and girls.

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

Submitted by: R.Naganath Davey

Country: India

Organisation: HelpMeSee

Category: Professional

Caption: Having cataract in her right eye from Utrakashi, Uttrakhand, not able to collect woods for her cooking, Catract was removed from Vivekananda Netralaya

Dehradun, Uttrakhand India

Photo Captured on 23.08.19 with Canon 80 D, 18-135 MM Lens, Equipment used - Canon Speedlite 430 EXII.

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Submitted by: Ellen Crystal

Country: Canada

Organisation: Seva Canada

Category: Professional

Caption: A young girl’s vision is assessed by the ophthalmologist at an outreach eye screening camp in Adet, Ethiopia.

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

Submitted by: Fatima Zehra

Country: Pakistan

Organisation: Al Baseer Foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Children with disabilities are overjoyed while celebrating World Sight Day with Al Baseer\'s team, Karachi Pakistan - an eye screening camp was organized by Al Baseer Foundation where free eye care services were provided.

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

Submitted by: María Torres Maldonado

Country: México

Organisation: Centro de Estudios para Invidentes, A.C.

Category: Amateur

Caption: Visual stimulation class, where the student is working contrasts, depth and tracking through assistive technology applications to train her visual restoration as

optimally as possible.

Clase de estimulación visual, donde la alumna está trabajando contrastes, profundidad y rastreo a través de aplicaciones de tecnología asistiva para entrenar su restauración visual lo más óptimo posible.

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 !

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

Submitted by: Fajar Waksi

Country: Indonesia

Organisation: Helen Keller International-Indonesia

Category: Professional

Caption: We help because we see their potential.

Child eye screened process in South Sulawesi Indonesia.

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

Submitted by: Manas Nath

Country: India

Organisation: ASG eye hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: Amblyopia Treatment: In the process of making the lazy eye active with fun

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

Submitted by: Harry Wood

Country: United Kingdom

Organisation: YWAM

Category: Professional

Caption: \'Beauty in Vision\'

Such happy people in Papua New Guinea, from what must seem like an alien device to these people, they are so trusting and thankful.

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

Submitted by: Rochelle Ann Agtay

Country: Philippines

Organisation: N/A

Category: Professional

Caption: The very bright eyes of this boy, taken in United Arab Emirates cultural exhibition reminds each and one of eyes the beauty of having a healthy eyesight. Taking care of our eyes starts now and not when time comes that deficiencies in its\' function starts to show.

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

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: khalid ahmed

Country: somalia

Organisation: Albasar foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: iol

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

Submitted by: fundacion oftalmológica hugo d. nano

Country: Argentina

Organisation: ONG prevencion y rehabilitacion de ceguera

Category: Amateur

Caption: consulta en una biblioteca escolar. campaña de errores refractivos escuela pública Argentina

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

Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey

Country: India

Organisation: Self Employed

Category: Professional

Caption: Infant baby eye screening for retinopathy of prematurity at Govt Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

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

Submitted by: Rajiv Ranjan Karn

Country: Nepal

Organisation: Eastern Regional Eye Care Program

Category: Amateur

Caption: \"#Vision First! Vision screening of school students at Gayatri Sanskrit Secondary School, Biratnagar, Nepal

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

Submitted by: kewal karia

Country: India

Organisation: None

Category: Amateur

Caption: Streetsters

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

Submitted by: Natrajan Vengadesan

Country: India

Organisation: Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry

Category: Amateur

Caption: I wonder what the doctor beyond my eyes

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: Health workers in collaboration with teachers in schools carry out a sharp screening of vision as one of the ways to conduct early detection of causes of vision disorders.

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

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

Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey

Country: India

Organisation: Self Employed

Category: Professional

Caption: Mother caring for her pre-term baby who is at a risk of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Mothers care has been found to help babies respond better in Neonatal intensive care units.

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

Submitted by: Tiffany Clementson

Country: Guyana

Organisation: Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy

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

Submitted by: Elena Burr

Country: United States

Organisation: Esperanca

Category: Amateur

Caption: A new hope. Pablo, completely blind in one eye from a cataract, and his daughter journeyed days from their rural, Peruvian village to the regional hospital after hearing about Esperança\'s surgical mission offering ophthalmology services. The next day, he would walk out of post-op without assistance, cataract-free.

Picture credit: Lynn Dugan, volunteer nurse

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

Submitted by: Mel Muchnik

Country: USA

Organisation: VOSH

Category: Amateur

Caption: (note: 1 of 4 submitted from this year\'s VOSH student photo contest. Contact

for all is Mel Muchnik, PhD, FVI on VOSH/International Board

and Communications Team Leader.

Title indicates who submitted and where this VOSH humanitarian clinic was.

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

Submitted by: Anurag

Country: India

Organisation: Sirimiri

Category: Amateur

Caption: a young girl in one of the remotest corners in Uttar Pradesh, India getting her eye examined.

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

Submitted by: Dr Sonia Pant

Country: India

Organisation: VisionSpring

Category: Amateur

Caption: Moga, Punjab, a shopkeeper is able to maintain his business ledger and stock accounts without any difficulty with his glasses.

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

Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey

Country: India

Organisation: Self Employed

Category: Professional

Caption: A Mother gives her pre-term baby (at risk of blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity) kangaroo mother care. Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a technique ofnewborn care where babies are kept chest-to-chest and skin-to-skin with a parent, typically their mother.

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

Submitted by: Christopher Iduma

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: NANVIS

Category: Professional

Caption: This is an image of a 22 year-old visually impaired second year student of Philosophy at the University Of Lagos, Nigeria. This image was made for a scholarship application in the summer. I always hope to document the relationship amongst visually paired students in the University. It\'s a beautiful and simple relationship yet somewhat complex.

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

Submitted by: Shyam

Country: NEPAL

Organisation: Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology

Category: Amateur

Caption: Happy Patient after cataract surgery

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

Submitted by: Ellen Crystal

Country: Canada

Organisation: Seva Canada

Category: Professional

Caption: An elderly woman with glasses in Harar, Ethiopia. The majority of the world’s blind are women and girls.

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

Submitted by: Vijayaraghavan Srinivasan

Country: India

Organisation: Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India

Category: Amateur

Caption: Equipment repaired is Instrument gained

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

Submitted by: iliya levkov

Country: България

Organisation: not

Category: Amateur

Caption: These are close to the village of Bachevo at the Kuker Carnival in the town of

Simitli . Despite the glasses, because they do not see well, they play admirably in these folk costumes and stop at nothing. Their group won second place for the festival\'s guest groups.

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

Submitted by: DR PRACHI BAKARE

Country: India

Organisation: DR D.Y PATIL MEDICAL COLLEGE

Category: Amateur

Caption: TEACHING RETINOSCOPY : ART OF PASSING ON VISION TO COMMUNITY AND

FUTURE GUARDIANS OF VISION!

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

Submitted by: Pn. Norhayati Baharruddin

Country: Malaysia

Organisation: hayati optometrist sdn bhd

Category: Professional

Caption: slit lamp biomicroscopy examination.

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

Submitted by: Nawrin Akhter

Country: India

Organisation: Freelance

Category: Amateur

Caption: The whole world in your eye

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

Submitted by: fundacion oftalmológica hugo d. nano

Country: Argentina

Organisation: ONG prevencion y rehabilitacion de ceguera

Category: Amateur

Caption: realizando ecometría para cirugía de catarata poblacion aborigen, Chaco 2018

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

Submitted by: copyright Ulrich Eigner

Country: Austria

Organisation: Light for the World

Category: Professional

Caption: A person preparing for eye surgery.

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

Submitted by: Rehber Ahmad Alvi

Country: India

Organisation: Vision Spring

Category: Amateur

Caption: Retinoscopy to find out the refractive status of eye

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 teacher does an external eye examination at school. Strengthening capacity for teachers in schools, one of the strategies to build awareness of the importance of children\'s eye health.

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: By looking, I can smile seeing the beauty of this world

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

Submitted by: fundacion oftalmológica hugo d. nano

Country: Argentina

Organisation: ONG prevencion y rehabilitacion de ceguera

Category: Amateur

Caption: medición de agudeza visual escuelas públicas del interior de pais. Argentina

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

Submitted by: Manaseh Rumbai

Email: maallrumbai@outlook.com

Country: Papua New Guinea

Organisation: EBC Health Establishment

Category: Amateur

Caption: World Sight Day Celebrated at Papua New Guinea, Lae, Morobe Province

EBC Bible College - Picture: One of the Student went through Eye Testing

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

Submitted by: Dr Helen

Country: Kenya

Organisation: Kwale District Eye Centre

Category: Amateur

Caption: Happy Margaret -after surgery

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

Submitted by: Farhat Yasmine

Country: INDIA

Organisation: Student

Category: Amateur

Caption: Refractive error is visually impaired...until its corrected

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

Submitted by: Mel Muchnik

Country: USA

Organisation: VOSH/International

Category: Amateur

Caption: (note: 2of 4 submitted from this year\'s VOSH student photo contest. Contact

for all is Mel Muchnik, PhD, FVI on VOSH/International Board

and Communications Team Leader.

Title indicates who submitted and the country where VOSH humanitarian clinic was held.

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

Submitted by: Ariunbold

Country: Mongolia

Organisation: Orbita Eye Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: Now, 99% dark room =100% clear vision in the future.

Young Ophthalmologist, who was screening for diabetic retinopathy in living rural area so far away from Ulaanbaatar city about 2000km from City. 99% dark room

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