Our Eye Care Program is dedicated to alleviating eye diseases and assisting the refraction needs for the people of Sumba. At each of our clinics one of our nurses has been trained to test and provide prescription glasses to those that need them. 

Over the years we have provided 14,182 people with the gift of better sight. 

Since 2014 to 2021 we have been collaborating with the Australian/Asian College of Surgeons, who since 2022 are known as Foresight. Led by Dr Mark Ellis, this team of six to eight Australian eye surgeons, and two Indonesian eye surgeons from the University of Hasanuddin in Makassar, volunteer their skills and time to come and help the people on this island. 

Each year they make miracles happen for hundreds of Sumbanese that can’t see, so far 1,312 eye surgeries have been performed.  

About four months before the planned surgeries our Sumba Foundation team starts screening thousands of people from across the island to find the ones that need surgery. We then set up the surgery wards in the local government hospitals and provide the transportation logistics to get the people from their villages to the hospitals and back.