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  Ophthalmic Resource Centre for Eastern Africa (ORCEA)
  The ORCEA, a non-profit organization, has
worked since the mid 2001. It is supervised and
directed by the Kilimanjaro Centre for
Community Ophthalmology (KCCO). It was
established to help develop and support the
VISION 2020 programme and to provide the eye
care providers in the eastern Africa region with
the relevant information on community eye
health. ORCEA provides both local and
distance service for eye care workers in Eastern
Africa.
ORCEA Local Services
  • Opening Hours: 08h00 to 17h00,
Monday - Friday. We do not open on Saturdays.

Distance Users' Services
As a regional center the ORCEA strives to
provide service outside of its physical
boundaries in Moshi and outside Tanzania to
the whole of eastern Africa. Whenever possible
we will offer materials by email or post.  All
services are freely available upon request.
Specific programmes available now include:

  • Electronic patient education brochure
    s: for Cataract, Childhood Cataract,
    Glaucoma &  Trichiasis
  • Electronic VISION 2020 national
    plans:  electronic copies of the plans for
    Ethiopia and Uganda are available on
    request.  
  • Community Eye Health Journal
    (Tanzanian Edition): a quarterly
    newsletter, produced by the International
    Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) in London. It
    is distributed within Tanzania by post from
    the ORCEA and includes inserts on
    current issues relevant to the
    development of the Tanzania VISION
    2020 Plan
  • Eye care personnel list: a list of all eye
    care personnel in Tanzania with email
    and postal addresses is available on
    request.
 
Optometry students studying in the ORCEA
For more information on the  
ORCEA's local and distance
services please email the
Coordinator, Mr. Makoye
Pastory, at
orcea@kcco.net
The ORCEA welcomes recommendations for
new materials.

Read more about ORCEA's main focus areas.
KCCO/Tumaini University I  PO Box 2254 I  Moshi, Tanzania I  Tel: 255 27 2753547 I  Fax: 255 27 2753598 I  kcco@kcco.net