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Benin hosted 2 missions. That of February which allowed Amandine LEPAGE and Fabienne PENTAGROSSA, opticians, to launch teletraining with Elvire PADONOU and Marguerite FAKEYE, our two local staff. Accompanied by Dr Georges RIOUX, the technical skills of the ophthalmological service led by Pierre NANOUKON have evolved.
The second mission has been postponed to December 2022 with the same objective, in preparation for the arrival of a new optical partner in 2023. Stay tuned!

Since the beginning of the year, our optical center in Matam has been visited by the volunteer teams of Thierry CALDERON, the association's optician partner, based in Avignon. In January, June and October, we launched our Digital Repository there. The training of the young Salla, the future optical manager of the center, therefore takes place through physical missions and remote training sessions.

After more than a year and a half of inactivity, Voir La Vie is returning to humanitarian missions in Guinea.
The aim is to relaunch the professional practice of staff with the implementation of distance learning. Provision of consultation materials, sessions on handling screening devices, skills training and distribution of corrective glasses.
Thanks to the HK Group and its Solidarity challenge which organizes all distance training sessions

For several months, Voir la Vie has been studying with the Rotary club in Cotonou Center, carrying out the “100 cataracts” operation. In partnership with the French clubs of Marseille St-Michel and Gémenos Ste-Baume, our NGO provided, last month, 100 cataract operating kits for the care of as many children requiring rapid surgery.
A school screening, carried out by Dr Alain Paul Amoussouga, past-president of the Beninese club and ophthalmologist at the La Lumière Clinic in Cotonou, made it possible to identify children with congenital cataracts. His team mobilized to offer the Rotary the possibility of carrying out these advanced strategy operations. The most important thing remained to be financed: the supply of phacokits which will allow the lens of these young students to be replaced. Something done by the delivery of precious packages during an administrative mission led by a representative of our association.
The rest is now just a matter of scheduling to best time the various surgical interventions according to the academic pace of the beneficiaries. One thing is certain: fighting blindness will allow these hundred children to continue their studies and therefore avoid dropping out of school, synonymous with being excluded from society. And when we know that these kids' only daily meal takes place at school, recovering their sight goes beyond the simple problem of visual comfort!

Voir La Vie is part of the Beninese National Plan to combat blindness by approaching Professor Soulé ALAMOU, Focal Point of the Ministry of Health. By offering 200 cataract operating kits, Professor ALAMOU's team was able to go to the Pobè region where our NGO opened an ophthalmological unit. The patients, selected by our medical team, were operated on within 2 days of the advanced strategy.
Professor ALAMOU will continue further north, towards the town of Bassila for another series of surgical interventions. Thank you to our partners, the Rotary Clubs of Marseille St-Michel, Gémenos Ste-Baume and Cotonou, the Sun Valley company, for helping us acquire these phacokits.

Guest on the radio show Les Pep'Hit de l'West on HitWest, Rozenn Guillemot talks about her participation in Voir La Vie missions. Instigator of the Solidarité HK Challenge within the Hesteau/Klienkoff group, she talks about her humanitarian commitment and that of the volunteer opticians who accompany her to train their counterparts in Guinea.

On the initiative of the Vue et Santé pour Tous association and created with the help of Voir La Vie, the Bus de la Vue is a unique character. He sets out to meet the isolated populations of Provence, Alps and Gard and takes the time to track them down. With a lot of attention and generosity.

On January 1, 2018, the “Solidarité HK” operation was launched, which the Hesteau/Klienkoff companies and the Voir La Vie association organized together. The aim of this internal challenge, open to KRYS staff from Rennes and its region, is to select 10 volunteer opticians who will train the teams of the optical centers of our NGO in Guinea.
4 one-week missions, spread out between October and December 2018 in order to provide all the skills necessary to strengthen vision correction practices in the centers of Conakry, Boké and Kindia. The last mission will allow an evaluation of the transmission of know-how and will identify the areas of progress to be achieved.
More than 200 people are involved in this challenge. The Voir La Vie office will meet with Breton directors and managers on February 2 to finalize the details of their participation. A fine example of North/South solidarity, both French and international!

Krys Group takes to the field. The group of optical brands, number 1 in France, is launching its campaign aimed at collecting old pairs of glasses in stores to offer them to those who need them on the other side of the world. To retrace how far a simple frame has come, Krys asked Cyril, a famous YouTuber, to head to Benin and visit the Voir La Vie ophthalmological unit.
An exciting and moving dive into the heart of a service that we opened just 2 years ago. The flagship action to come is screening in schools. Because equipping a child is not just about treating their eye problem. It also prevents him from dropping out of school.

Whether they are called Rotary, Krys Group Foundation or Challenge Solidarité HK, the logos of our NGO partners now watch over the destiny of our Guinean structure. Equipment, consumables, training... were provided thanks to their generosity and the interest they have in our development program

At the end of the “Solidarité HK” Challenge evaluation mission, Guillaume Millet, Guillaume Créach and Céline Baratte installed the identification plaque for the ophthalmological unit and the optical center. In the presence of the entire team of Dr Ismael Mamou, including Golé Bilivogui (TSO) and Balla-Moussa Diakité (Optometrist/optician). A fair return, 8 years after the opening of one of the 8 operational structures of our association in Guinea!