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The 2021 Frans Oosterhof Conference Grant To Attend The BCLA Was Awarded To 7 Ghanaian Optometry Students The Optical Foundation is thrilled to announce that seven Ghanaian level 500 Optometry students have been awarded The Optical Foundation’s Frans Oosterhof...

NCC2020 Postponed! Like many event organisers around the world, the Netherlands Contact Lens Congress (NCC) board was faced with the huge responsibility of making a decision on how to proceed given the unprecedented situation that is COVID-19. The decision was made to...

The 2020 Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant To Attend The NCC2020 Awarded To 2 Ghanaian Optometry Students The Optical Foundation is pleased to announce the two winners of The Optical Foundation’s 2020 Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant to attend the 2020Netherlands Contact Lens...

The 2020 Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant To Attend The NCC2020 In The Netherlands Submission Window Now Open! We’re excited to announce that applications are now officially open for the 2020 Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant to attend the 2020 Netherlands Contact Lens...

Count down to the 2019 Lecturing Tour By Professor Eric Papas and Esma Aygun In the lead up to our 2019’s Lecturing Tour, here are some highlights from our 2015 Lecturing Tour. Professor Eric Papas presented at two universities in Ghana (University of Cape Coast and...

The Optical Foundation is Making Funding Available Eyecare in Ghana is continually evolving each year as new students graduate in the field of optometry from either of the Optometry Schools at the universities in Ghana. However, there is still an enormous shortage of...

Meet The 2019 Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant Awardees! The Optical Foundation has announced two winners of The Optical Foundation’s  Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant to attend the BCLA Conference in Manchester, UK in 2019: Miss Nutifafa Esther Senanu from Kwame Nkrumah...

Ghana Project 2018 Update: Ellen and Iris arrived in Ghana Ellen and Iris have landed in Ghana. They will soon be en route to Jachie to commence with comprehensive eye examinations on approximately 1000 children over the course of the next two weeks. Our funding...

Australian Scientia PhD Scholarships Available Expression of Interest for the 2019 round of the UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship Scheme is now open, and will close at 11.59pm on 20 July 2018. SOVS has a structured postgraduate program consisting of in-house research...