Vision Care Services, an NGO established in 2002 in Korea, is focused on facilitating comprehensive, quality eye care for disadvantaged communities around the world, with an emphasis on cataract blindness.

“We are proud to be associated with an organisation like Vision Care Services and making it possible, through our participation, to bring world class eye care not only to Mozambique and Zambia in 2008, but also other regions in the future,” says Dr Michelle Potgieter, marketing director for LG Electronics South Africa.

The medical team from VCS will be in Maputo, Mozambique from 8 to 10 May 2008 and are hoping to operate on 70 patients and provide free consultations to more than 300 patients.  The team will then travel to Lusaka, Zambia, where more than 100 operations have been scheduled, with in excess of 500 free consultations planned between 10 and 18 May 2008.

Vision Care Services has been contacted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and are planning to conduct the free eye camps in South Africa, at the Nelson Mandela Memorial Hospital in Port Elizabeth in 2009.

Through the participation and commitment of more than 629 volunteers and 124 ophthalmologists around the world, Vision Eye Care Services has conducted more than 3 000 operations since its inception in September 2002 and continues to live its dream that all people are able to exercise their right to sight.