by Charlotte Marbuss | Nov 25, 2016 | Past Events
2016 Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant – TFOS France The 2016 Optical Foundation Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant was awarded to Acheampong Oppong, who attended the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Conference in Montpellier, France. Acheampong is a student at the Kwame Nkrumah...
by Charlotte Marbuss | Nov 25, 2016 | Past Events
2016 World Sight Day Screening – Gary, Indiana Our chair, Carolina Kunnen, travelled to Indiana to provide free vision tests to elementary school students and youth baseball players from Gary, Indiana for World Sight Day 2016. The vision event was a collaborative...
by Charlotte Marbuss | Dec 25, 2015 | Past Events
Early December 2015, The Optical Foundation and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) teamed up for another collaborative screening project in Essiam. Organized by Francis Wiredu one of UCC’s students, this two day screening gave 11 optometry students the...
by Charlotte Marbuss | Nov 25, 2015 | Past Events
2015 Lecturing Tour Prof Eric Papas – Ghana One of the highlights of 2015 was the Lecturing Tour that The Optical Foundation organized. We invited Professor Eric Papas to present at two universities (University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and...
by Rens | Nov 8, 2014 | Past Events
2014 Seminar Carolina Kunnen – Cape Coast, Ghana Seminar CarolinaOur chairman, Carolina Kunnen, visited Ghana in October 2014 to give a seminar on her PhD research ‘the influence of the influence of Meibomian gland morphology and function on ocular comfort’. The...
by Rens | Dec 8, 2011 | Past Events
2011 Comprehensive Eye Exams – Cape Coast, Ghana New volunteer in GhanaFrom the July 10th to August 1st of 2011, Esma was sent to Ghana on behalf of The Optical Foundation to continue the Glasshopper project. Esma is a Dutch orthoptist and lecturer at the University...
