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Community Outreach and Social Marketing of Eye Care
01 - 17 July 2026 | 3 Weeks
INR 23,600 | USD 590 (Includes 18% GST)
This course is designed to share the key lessons learned over four decades of working closely with communities to deliver high-quality, accessible eye-care services to those who need them most.
493
Participants
28
Countries
55
Batches
What You'll learn in This Course?
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How to plan for a camp
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How to engage community partners
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How to organize comprehensive eye screening camps
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How to bring more in patients
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Learn to monitor and evaluate a camp
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How to implement effective counseling
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How to ensure quality care for camp patient
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How to organize specialty eye camps: school screening, workplace camp, and diabetic retinopathy camp
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Additional strategies to widen the coverage in the community.
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How a vision centre works
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Communication skills and writing small projects
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What are makes a camp successful
The Programme Covers
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Estimating prevalence of blindness and visual impairment in your service area
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Designing outreach programmes for different population segment
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Setting targets for eye camps
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Building community participation
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Ensuring quality in eye camps
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Managing high volume inpatients
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Setting up and running successful vision centers
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Monitoring of outreach programmes
Who Should Attend?
This course targets staff involved in organizing camps: project manager, outreach coordinator, programme coordinator, social worker, counselor, ophthalmic assistant etc.
The course is relevant to my work as a community strategy focal person in the eye care field, as I frequently interact with the community.
It also enables effective planning and implementation of eye care activities within communities.
Additionally, it helps me supervise eye care workers, ensuring they are better equipped to support these activities.
William Chepkonga Ng'otie
Department of Health Services, Kenya