Concern: Every third child under 10 in Pec region with visual damage

Under this project, about 250 children with initial injuries were donated glasses from the French company “Esilor Group”.

The “has become a huge, totally voluntary work by the entire team of Peja élionists, directors, teachers and staff of these schools, as well as by the visual function measurement team from the stem centre for teaching and counselling ♫ Genadeen Deva”, says Ekrem Zogaj, responsible for this project at the NGO <x> Peja Lion Club-3x>.

The project in fact, in addition to the aspect of charity and care for people with visual injury, has also had awareness goals and identification of cases. During this project's implementation, nearly 1,000 and 500 SHF students “dania” in Peja and SHF “Trepca” in Banja of Istog have passed basic testing of the first. From this number of students, much of it has been recommended for visiting ophthalmologist. According to the project's directors, this project has also had the effect of awareness in schools and families about children's injuries.

According to QBMK director Jedeen Deda” in Pec, Xhavit Kastrati, two experts from this school of blinds, have tested them in numbers and letters, and nearly every third have been told that they need to address their eye doctor because of identified visual problems. No diagnosis has been given in these tests, but only the identification of their cases and reference to doctors has been made. “From these visual function tests, more than half of the tested students have needed glasses. Almost a third of them have been referred to as visiting an eye doctor, some of whom have not even been aware of their shortcomings in the function of sight. And this is a mirror of the situation in children growing up with smartphones, since the days of infancy”, says Kastrati