Lao Rehabilitation Foundation

OCTOBER 2025 – World Sight Day (WSD), held each year on the second Thursday of October, is a global initiative focused on raising awareness about blindness, visual impairment, and the importance of eye health. The day highlights the need for accessible, high-quality eye care so people everywhere can enjoy the gift of sight. In 2025, World Sight Day fell on October 9, with the theme: “Love Your Eyes and help make the case for eye Read more

JUNE 2025 – Our second outreach eye care mission of 2025 took us deep into the heart of northern Laos. We began in Chomleng Yai village where we conducted vision screenings and refraction exams using the Plenoptika QuickSee Pro auto-refractor, and fitted patients with prescription glasses—many of them receiving clear vision for the first time in years. From there, we traveled along the Mekong River to the LRF. Download report of mission Part 1 and Part Read more

FEBRUARY 2025 – In early February, our Eye Care for the People of the Mekong Riverside Project launched its first mission of the year, delivering essential eye care to some of the most remote communities along the Mekong River. Our team once again traveled by speedboat to the village of Khoka, nestled deep in the countryside. Word of our visit had spread, and many villagers made long journeys from surrounding areas, in the hope of Read more

OCTOBER 2024 –The Lao Rehabilitation Foundation embarked on a significant October mission dedicated to improving eye care and other medical services in remote areas of Laos. Upon arriving in Vientiane, the mission began with the delivery of essential medical equipment to Dr. Ong, honorary professor at the National University of Laos. Download project Part 1 and Part 2 – photos of the mission

JUNE 2024 – The June eye care mission for the Mekong Riverside Project, the third of the year, saw our team traveling to Pagbeng, Oudomxay Province to deliver medical equipment for Pakbeng District Hospital and Kokkkah Health Center. After handing over the equipment, we intended to visit villages along the Mekong River to provide refraction services and prescription glasses to the local population. However, the early onset of the rainy season brought unfavorable weather conditions Read more

JANUARY 2024 – This was the second mission of the Eye Care for People of the Mekong Riverside Project. The project is aiming at improving the eye health of people living along the bank of the Mekong River in Pakbeng District, Oudomxay province. In association with the Oudomxay Provincial Public Health office and the Pakbeng District Hospital Health office, the LRF team of six people visited two villages, one health center and the Pakbeng District Read more

This preventive eye care mission was a partnership between the Oudomxay and Phongsaly Provincial Public Health Departments in cooperation with the Lao Rehabilitation Foundation (LRF) and See Eye Expedition International (SEE). It was conducted in two districts of Phongsaly Province and at Oudomxay Provincial Hospital. 662 patients were examined, surgery was provided for to 125 patients and 328 pairs of glasses were distributed. Click here to download report Part 1 and Part 2

Our second mobile cataract surgery mission of 2022 brought us to Phongsaly, the least visited and most extreme northern province of Laos, bordering China to the North and west and Vietnam to the east. Nurses from the three district hospitals of the province, Bounneu, Phongsaly and Yord Ou screened the vision of 878 older people as part of their ongoing outreach program in 50 remote villages and appointed those with cataracts to be treated at Read more