The Carter Center & F.I. Proctor Foundation

Amhara, Ethiopia

507,860

10,374

Start date: 2016

End date: 2023

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We support The Carter Center and the F.I. Proctor Foundation at UCSF in their efforts to see how water sanitation and hygiene education will help reduce trachoma infections. What’s trachoma? It’s the world’s leading infectious eye disease that can lead to blindness and is impacting lives in more than 50 countries. Children ages 1-10 are most commonly infected with trachoma. The Carter Ceneter is providing community-led hygiene classes, handwashing stations, and soap to families in this community. Soapbox is supporting their study by sponsoring the purchase of local soap to provide to families.

Partner Details

A nongovernmental organization, The Carter Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 80 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy and human rights; preventing diseases, and improving mental health care. The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology is an internationally renowned, privately endowed Organized Research Unit at the University of California San Francisco. The Foundation is dedicated to research and training in infectious and inflammatory ocular diseases, and the application of this research to the prevention of blindness worldwide. It is recognized as the pre-eminent center in the world for this discipline.

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