Sun, 20 July
|Lautoka Fiji
2025 ODA Fiji Outreach Project
Optical Dispensers Australia (ODA) is heading to Fiji in July 2025 to provide much needed eyecare and glasses to communities within remote villages.
Time & Location
20 July 2025, 9:00 am AEST – 27 July 2025, 5:00 pm AEST
Lautoka Fiji, 6FW2+V9H, Nadi, Fiji
About the event
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO JOIN OUR 2025 PROJECT AS A VOLUNTEER ARE NOW OPEN!
Fiji is a stunning holiday destination in the South Pacific and home to 936,000 Fijians. Unfortunately what many people don't realise is that it has one of the most underfunded health care systems in the world and approximately 40% of the population live below the poverty line. In July 2024 ODA ebmarked on a journey to the Viti Levu island and provided vision screening to approximately 1,300 people and dispensed over 400 pairs of glasses via a mobile clinic. The work was conducted alonside Opticare - The Eye Clinic Fiji and Christian Helps Fiji and involved a team of 12 ODA volunteers from Australia.
With more work to be done, ODA Members are invited to apply to join us on another international outreach trip to the Fiji Islands in July 2025. This is the second year running…