UK charity Vision for a Nation, which runs a ground-breaking national eye care programme in Rwanda, today announces that it has provided Peek Vision, the London based start-up, with accelerator funding of £50,000. Peek (Portable Eye Examination Kit) enables health workers to examine and diagnose eye diseases using a smartphone, which could potentially revolutionise the way eye care is delivered worldwide.

Six hundred KwaZulu-Natal textile factory workers will have an opportunity to have their vision examined at their workplaces, through a 12-month research study program funded by Lion’s Club International Foundation (LCIF).