For 75 year-old farmer Muzei Kakaire, impaired vision meant struggling with routine household and self-care activities, says village coordinator Emmanuel Menya.

Unable to refer to his bible or read the local newspaper, Muzei found his social and spiritual world contracting too. Lacking funds to purchase the costly eyeglasses prescribed by a local doctor, Muzei’s future - in which social isolation and loss of independence threatened to play a large part - looked bleak.

But not any more.

Last week, hundreds of other elders lined up beside Muzei to receive a pair of corrective eyeglasses at Wakitaka’s first Eye Camp. Collected by a Nabuur neighbor in the Netherlands and distributed via a unique collaboration between the Wakitaka Youth Development Group and Hope Alive Uganda (HAU), another community-based organisation created through Nabuur, the glasses – given out to participants after a detailed eye-examination - do more than transform the way people see. They transform lives. Just ask Muzei and the other 299 villagers who received new glasses.

“Muzei’s continuous smile was enough to tell how happy he was,” Emmanuel Menya recalls, adding that Muzei is thrilled to be able to read again.

Emmanuel’s own sights are set firmly on the future. “The eye-camp’s success shows how desperately people here need these programs,” he says. "As the government seldom provides these services, it is through partnerships with organizations like HAU that we can stage similar events – and transform more lives - in the future."

Now that’s vision.