“හිතැති මනුදම” | Phase 3 of the Project Be their Vision 6.0

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 Be Their Vision is a project executed under the Category of Vision by the Leo Club of University Colombo for the sixth consecutive year. After successfully completing the first two phases, the third step, which involved an equipment donation to the National Eye Hospital's Vision Therapy Unit, was completed on February 3, 2022.

Vision therapy is a progressive program of vision procedures, customized to fit the visual needs of each patient, and it may be used to treat problems such as amblyopia (lazy eye), eye alignment, and coordination problems (including turned eyes or squints), poor focus, and inadequate eye-hand coordination.

Although the Department of Optometry of National Eye Hospital of Sri Lanka currently conducts clinical refraction to address eye-related issues, there are identified gaps in some cases, and appropriate analysis and differential diagnosis do not take place due to the existing setup, where it should come under vision therapy. However, due to a lack of equipment, optometry professionals are reluctant to continue vision therapy treatments regularly.

To perform these special tests and treatments, optometry professionals need more equipment. To fulfill the aspiration of eradicating preventable blindness, the National Eye Hospital is in the process of establishing a new Vision Therapy Unit. Therefore, we, the Leos of the University of Colombo, donated the most required equipment to the Vision Therapy Unit of the National Eye Hospital, which is the one and only Vision Therapy Unit in Sri Lanka that provides vision therapy treatments for free of charge.

We hope that Be Their Vision 6.0 had a significant impact on helping people to capture their life moments with quality, to see the exquisite blend of colors, and to be someone else’s vision by taking actions to eradicate the blindness that affects 2.2 billion lives globally.



Last but not least, we would like to use this opportunity to extend our heartfelt appreciation to everyone including the project's official sponsors in particular Sakya Academy of Higher Education and Wisdom Business Academy who contributed to the successful completion of the project in all the three stages, “You n Eye”, “නේත්‍රා” and “හිතැති මනුදම”.

 Written by – Leo Udeshika Ganegoda

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