J Comm Eye Health 2000;13(34): 28
Task Force SIGHT AND LIFE Support for new regional resource centres project
Task Force SIGHT AND LIFE is supporting the training of eye health workers
at six key training centres in Africa, Asia and Latin America through distributing
teaching and educational
materials on Childhood Blindness and Xerophthalmia. The support of Task
Force SIGHT AND LIFE for the new Regional Resource Centres project means
that more than 1,100 materials will be
made available to support eye health workers involved in training others.
'This is an important partnership' said Dr Martin Frigg of Task Force
SIGHT AND LIFE, 'and we believe that our contribution will have a far-reaching
impact on the education of health workers
in the prevention of childhood blindness and, particularly, vitamin A deficiency'.
The project will be co-ordinated by the International Resource Centre for the Prevention of Blindness, ICEH, London and involves six training centres in Colombia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, India and Pakistan.
