Jacqueline Kiage

INNOVATION EYE CENTRE

• The 1st Eye Hospital in South Western region of Kenya;
• Team of 75 employees
• More than 160,000 patients served as of June 2023;
• Over 15,000 sight-restoring surgeries with over 8,000 done for free or subsidy as of June 2023;
• Over 60,000 community outreach patients served as of June 2023;
• Over 20,000 spectacles dispensed as of June 2021;
• Innovation Eye Centre was accredited in 2019 by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board [KMPDB] as a registrars’ training centre;
• Start up funding from Fiat Lux Foundation (300,000 USD), Hilton Foundation with Dana Centre and LAICO/Aravind Eye Care System (200,000 USD), Right to Sight Ireland/Norway (36,000 €), Brien Holden Vision Institute (43,000 €) and Eye Foundation (10.000 €);
• Won the Gian Marco Moratti Award for the best job-creating entrepreneurial venture in 2021;
• Won the Vision Excellence Award from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness in 2020;
• Received the Beyond Zero Medical Safaris Award from the First Lady of Kenya, H.E Margaret Kenyatta, in 2019, for providing exemplary community eyecare for the elderly.