The Retina Initiative – Better Vision. Better Lives.

Our Mission
To create a community that is free from preventable blindness

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About Us

The R.E.T.I.N.A is an acronym for Restoration of Eyecare Through Innovation and Awareness. It is a youth-led non-profit organization committed to promoting primary eye care services through research, advocacy campaigns, outreach programmes, trainings and sustainable eye care innovations that challenges systemic barriers to preventable blindness in underserved African communities.

OUR MISSION
To promote eye healthcare through awareness, advocacy, community-based interventions and innovative solutions to under-served communities in order to enhance human performance and quality of life.
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Our Objectives
The broad objectives of The Retina Initiative could be summarized as follows

To promote and increase public awareness about preventable blindness and eye healthcare.
To train young people about basic first aid skills in responding to emergency eye injuries.
To provide innovative solutions that promotes good eye health and is generally acceptable.
To increase advocacy about issues that affect people in areas of primary eye care.

To provide comprehensive vision care services to under-served communities in order to bring about the eradication and control of preventable blindness and visual impairment
To periodically (monthly basis) encourage people about the importance of good eye health towards the actualization of sustainable development goals
To participate and carryout epidemiological research on issues that affect communities related primary eye healthcare in order to provide evidence-based interventions.

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Our aim is to create a community that is free from preventable blindness

Motto

Better Vision. Better Lives.

Our Projects

A Campaign on Road Traffic Accidents and Eye Injuries

YALI Serves 2021

First Aid Treatment For Eye Injuries

Diabetes School Tour

World Glaucoma Week Community Outreach

Mission Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Project

World Sight Day Essay Writing Challenge

Sickle Cell Retinopathy Awareness

Healthy Eyes Awareness Literacy (H.E.A.L) The World

Meet Our Volunteers

Our fingerprints on the lives we touch never fade.

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Babatunde Bale
Co-founder/Administrative Coordinator

Amarachi Esonwune
Co-founder/Project Manager

Grace Okolie
Assistant Project Manager I

Susan Macaulay
Assistant Project Manager II

Femi Daniel
Media and Communications

Clinton Okechukwu
Media and Communications

Godsglory Braimoh
Media and Communications

Michael Asije
Programs and Community Engagement Coordinator

Light of God Ihesiolu
Branding and Design Coordinator

Lynette Amematekpor
Curriculum and Content Developer

Sordiq Adeniyi
Curriculum and Content Developer