Playing the leading role in caring the residents’s health, AFESIP Siem Reap Center’s team recently took some of the residents who are supposedly subjected to eyestrain or eyesight problem to Siem Reap Provincial Hospital for eye care. This eye care project is sponsored by SEVA Foundation which has its supreme goal to work with communities worldwide to achieve health equity in Asia, Africa and Latin America to help those that are vulnerable and economically marginalized including women, children, and indigenous peoples end preventable blindness.

As the result of the eye consultation by SEVA oculists, 5 of the 23 residents who were sent for eye restoration will wear glasses within six months later, 5 of them, who get their eyes dried received eye-drop, one was found lack of vitamin A and 13 others get normal eyes. 

After the eye consultation session, the medical team recommended them to take care of the eyes and raised the importance of the eye care. The SEVA project officer said the eye consultation session will be conducted again every 6 months. “ Please have a short break to relax if your feel hurt in your eyes, that may give cause and effect to other organ” said the officer.

AFESIP Cambodia would like to take this special opportunity to express its deepest thanks to Somaly Mam Foundation who brought this service to Siem Reap residents and special thanks are given to SEVA Foundation for their humanitarian action toward people of Cambodia, especially to our women, victims of human trafficking for sex slavery.