How we help
Provide Comprehensive Eye Care
We opened our Impfondo eye centre in 2012, our Ouesso Interim Eye Centre in 2019, as well as our Interim Surgical Centre in 2022, to provide accessible comprehensive eye care.
We have moved into our new eye hospital and held a soft opening on 11 July 2025.
Empower the Local Community
We train the community to create sustainable, locally managed services so that they will continue to run long after our involvement. Our training program has been running since 2019. The interns have been involved in clinical work, eye screening and community health initiatives.
Advocate Eye Health
We partnered with the government, WHO and schools to distribute masks and recorded COVID awareness info via radio in 2020. In 2021, we ran 4 eye health screening and educational campaigns, and began to produce and distribute a children’s magazine to local schools to promote literacy, numeracy, and health education.
See our work in one page: New Sight One-Pager
The New Sight Congo Hospital
Having served the Likouala Region through our eye clinic in Impfondo, we were invited by local authorities to build an eye hospital in Ouesso of La Sangha region.
The town of Ouesso is strategically located and would make eye care accessible for the entire country of Congo. We are passionate to make this a reality.
We have completed construction of the Eye Block of the New Sight Congo Hospital and held our soft opening on 11 July 2025. We are currently fundraising for the operational costs and construction of future accommodations.
Donate below to support the services of this hospital for our patients.
The Ouesso Interim Eye Centre
While building the hospital, New Sight served the eye care needs of the community and opened the Interim Eye Centre on 18 July 2019. The Department of Health lent us a space in their health centre.
On 5 November 2020, we moved to the location at Rue André Sama. Our Interim Eye Centre had a reception, administration areas, as well as consultation and examination rooms. The larger space also allowed our training school to move into the same site. We also turned one of the rooms into an optical workshop – the first of its kind in Congo. We have now moved to the eye block of the hospital.
The Ouesso Interim Surgical Centre
Our Interim Surgical Centre in Ouesso was operational since November 2022 until the move the hospital. We have been able to rent a new building next to the Interim Eye Centre and connect the two spaces with a gate. We saw so many patients who need surgical help and we were thankful we could meet their needs in Ouesso.
See more photos here: Interim Surgical Centre.
Training school
New Sight is passionate about empowering the local community to ensure greater access to care. We have established a training program in Ouesso to recruit local Congolese people and employ them as staff for the future hospital. The program provides training and instruction for eye nurses, and extending beyond medical skills to provide IT and administrative experience as well.
Project Two Front Teeth
Project Two Front Teeth is all about kids seeing the needs of the world and acting on their ideas to fundraise.
The vision is to cultivate a culture where students SEE:
S – SEE the needs of the world
E – EXERCISE what is already in their hands to make a difference
E – EQUIP themselves to make an even bigger difference
See our Project Two Front Teeth page to learn more.
School Partnerships & Children’s Magazine
New Sight Kids rekindled a long-held dream of the Samoutou Family to create a children’s magazine for the Congo community. With help from adult and children volunteers around the world, we created for schoolchildren a magazine with health education content (including eye care and dental health), literacy and numeracy activities, and bible stories. Not only will Congolese kids learn counting and writing, they will learn about keeping healthy, and of course having fun!
Currently, we have partnerships with 30 local schools.
See our Children’s Magazine posts for more.
The Impfondo Eye Centre
The eye centre was the first eye surgical centre in Impfondo, in the north of the Republic of the Congo. We have provided our full services from 14 January 2013 and performed over 1,500 consultations annually. The centre also delivered a free eye health screening service and completed screening of villages in the entire Likouala region in mid-2017. New Sight ended its services in Impfondo in August 2023 and refocused our resources on Ouesso and the dedicated comprehensive eye hospital.
Donate below to provide the care for our patients.
