{"id":41,"date":"2021-07-13T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T07:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voirlavie\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2024-08-18T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:50:20","slug":"historique-en-date","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/en\/historique-en-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Our history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our history<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Step by step for 30 years<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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1994<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Creation of the association<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Around standard statutes and to respond to a humanitarian issue, a handful of volunteers imagined Voir La Vie and provided it with the means necessary for its actions<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1994<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1996<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Search for implantation sites<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

3 preparatory missions to invest a structure in Guinea, departure for our future actions<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1996<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1997<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Betty's operation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first of 50 Guinean children subsequently welcomed in Marseille in a hospital environment<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1997<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1998<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Opening of the OPH unit in Conakry (Guinea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After numerous exploratory and audit missions, it was in the Symbaya district of Conakry that the association's very first ophthalmological unit was created.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1998<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1999<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

First operational and training missions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A year after our arrival in Guinea, the first cataract surgical operations were carried out in Conakry. The extra-capsular technique was making its debut in the country and would enable the training of dozens of surgeons<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1999<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2000<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Opening of the Kankan OPH unit (Guinea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Until then occupied by the OPC, the ophthalmology department of the Kankan hospital was cruelly lacking in equipment, means and human resources when the Guinean government asked us to take it over.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2000<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2004<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Opening of the Kindia OPH unit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The third city in the country, a crossroads between the north and the south, calls on the association to help it meet the pressing demand of its population for the management of its eye diseases<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2004<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2005<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Autonomy of the Conakry unit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It took no less than 7 years and dozens of training missions to achieve the medical and economic autonomy of the first ophthalmological unit created by the association.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2005<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2006<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

First mission of advanced strategies in rural areas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The need to get out of fixed centers pushes the association to carry out its first mobile consultations to meet isolated and sedentary populations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2006<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2007<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

First container of medical equipment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In partnership with Guin\u00e9e Solidarit\u00e9 Provence, a container of medical equipment, coming from French donations, is heading to Conakry to equip future operating structures. Around ten others will follow.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2007<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2010<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Opening of the Bok\u00e9 OPH unit (Guinea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Guinean government calls on the association to equip the Bok\u00e9 mining region, in full development, with a reference ophthalmological structure<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2010<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2011<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Opening of the Kindia optical center (Guinea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Seven years after the opening of the ophthalmological unit, optics appeared in Kindia and marked the association's shift to take care of refractive errors<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2011<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2012<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Creation of the Phacokit campaign in West Africa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Design of a cataract operating kit for intervention in rural areas. Manufacturing and sending of 45,000 copies to Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2012<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2013<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

3 OPENINGS OF UNITS AND CREATION OF A TRAINING SCHOOL<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Opening of the Dabola ophthalmological unit (Guinea).
Opening of the ophthalmological unit in Fria (Guinea).
Opening of the Bok\u00e9 optical center (Guinea).
Opening of the Phaco-A International Training School in Dakar (Senegal)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2013<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Opening of the OPH unit in T\u00e9lim\u00e9l\u00e9 (Guinea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Opening of a \u201crelay\u201d ophthalmological unit in the town of T\u00e9lim\u00e9l\u00e9, a very remote region dependent on our operational structure in Kindia<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2014<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2015<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Opening of the OPH units of POB\u00e8 (BENIN) and N'Z\u00e9r\u00e9kor\u00e9 (Guinea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pob\u00e8, 150 km from Cotonou (Benin), sees its first OPH unit emerge from the ground as well as in N'Z\u00e9r\u00e9kor\u00e9 (Forest Guinea), a region that is difficult to access.
In both cases, there was no surgical provision of eye care.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2015<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2016<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Creation of Bus de la Vue<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Design and construction of an ambulatory structure on board a truck to carry out free screening campaigns in French territories where access to eye care is difficult (medical deserts)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2016<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2018<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Launch of the \u201cSolidarit\u00e9 HK\u201d challenge (Guinea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

First \u201cSolidarit\u00e9 HK\u201d challenge in Guinea allowing training missions for local staff to be carried out thanks to volunteer opticians from the Breton group<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2018<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2018<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Launch of the Make It Easy operation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Launch of the Make It Easy operation in Guinea aimed at equipping populations with new glasses offered by the KRYS Group Foundation<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2018<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2019<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

2 CENTER OPENINGS AND STAFF TRAINING<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Opening of the Pob\u00e8 optical center (Benin).
\u2022 Opening of the Matam optical center (Senegal).
\u2022 Launch of the \u201cMake It Easy\u201d operation in Benin and Senegal.
\u2022 First \u201cKrys Group\u201d staff training challenge<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2019<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2020<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Co-foundations of 2 GUINEAN NGOs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Support for the founding of the NGO AMDC Ophtalmo (staff training in Conakry)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support for the founding of the NGO Droit \u00e0 la Vue (prevention in Kindia)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2020<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Launch of e-learning (Guinea, Benin and Senegal)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Creation of a digital repository which opens the way to distance professional training for all of the association's West African staff<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2021<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2022<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

OPTICAL TRAINING IN SENEGAL<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With the support of the CALDERON Group of opticians, launch of optical training for our staff in Matam, north east of the country<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2022<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2023<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

OPTICAL TRAINING IN BENIN<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With the support of the TORRILHON Group of opticians, launch of optical training for our staff in Pob\u00e8, 150 km from Porto-Novo.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2023<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

30 YEARS !<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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