CATALEYES
Integrate vision screening and reading glasses into your existing programs.
How can you harvest a crop or read a phone if you can’t see up close?
827 million people are constrained by presbyopia, the blurry near vision that comes with age. The solution is a simple pair of reading glasses.
Any trained person can conduct sight tests and dispense reading glasses
Eye health specialists are extremely scarce in most of the world. CatalEYES builds on World Health Organization task-sharing guidelines. Our partnerships have equipped a wide array of community agents and trained more than 6,000 people.
Community Health Workers
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Religious Leaders
Primary Health Nurses
Post Office Workers
Pharmacy Staff
Micro Entrepreneurs
The Impact Is Clear
Toyin Amoo runs Litoma Pharmacy in Ibadan, Nigeria. Since adding near vision screenings and reading glasses to her practice, she has a new revenue stream and customers who can see clearly.
Build Your CatalEYES Partnership
No two partners are the same. CatalEYES combines flexible building blocks that can be adapted to your program, workforce, and community needs.
Vision Screening Training
Train frontline staff and community agents to screen community members vision.
Supportive Supervision
Monitor & Improve using standardized digital tools to track screening protocol adherence and strengthen program quality.
Demand
Generation
Mobilise communities using proven outreach and engagement strategies.
Data &
Learning
Track & Learn using practical data tools and evidence-driven learning to improve implementation over time.
Glasses
Supply
Provide quality-assured reading glasses through VisionSpring's established supply network.
25 years of real-world deployments with NGOs, governments, and mission-aligned partners
VisionSpring's training materials were highly visual and action-oriented — careful to simplify, but not to dilute. We integrated screenings into existing primary health workflows without additional burden. Vision screening has become as routine as taking a blood pressure reading — a new vital sign.
DR. OTERI OKOLO
National Coordinator, National Eye Health Programme, Nigeria
CatalEYES Partners
To date, we have equipped 20 partners across 8 countries with CatalEYES.
Let’s CatalEYES!
Together, we will close the global vision gap. In our lifetime.
Contact us at partnersuccess@visionspring.org.