How we Work

We believe that persons with blindness or visual impairments, are entitled to some basic services and opportunities, wherever they live. Therefore, our entire advocacy seeks to assure the following:

• Eye health services of: Good quality, which is available, accessible,  affordable, and equitable;
  
  
• Inclusive education services which are (at least) on par with education opportunities available to children and adults with out blindness or visual impairments;
  
  
• Viable employment; and where employment opportunities are not available, unemployment or pension benefits, at or better than the national minimum wage.
  
  
• A safe and physically secure environment.
  

About Eye Care Caribbean

Since 1967 we have facilitated: Eye health services to more than one million persons across the Caribbean, helped more than a thousand children with blindness or visual impairment gain access to formal education and provided close to ten thousand adults who are blind, with training in adjustment to blindness techniques.

The Caribbean Council for the Blind [CCB], was established on September 24th, 1967 as a regional Not-for-Profit Organization comprising of Societies/Associations of and for the Blind throughout the mainly English-speaking Caribbean.

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Our Mission, Purpose, Goal & Objectives

Mission

Promote effective measures for the preservation of sight and for the education and training, rehabilitation, employment and well being, and to do all things to facilitate the integration of persons with blindness or visual impairments in the societies of the countries and territories of its Member Agencies/Organizations.

Purpose

Preventing blindness & visual impairment; while restoring sight and creating opportunities for persons whose sight cannot be restored.

Our goal

A Caribbean, fully compliant with the objectives of: Vision 2020 (The right to Sight), Education for all children with blindness & visual impairments (EFA) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

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Our History

The Caribbean Council for the Blind [CCB], was established on September 24th, 1967 as a regional Not-for-Profit Organization comprising of Societies/Associations of and for the Blind throughout the mainly English-speaking Caribbean and Haiti. However, CCB now includes Associations from two Francophone countries, Haiti and Martinique. Initially, CCB operated out of Trinidad, but in 1980, the Secretariat or Administrative Office was relocated to Antigua. This new location, geographically, provided easier access to the territories of the Eastern Caribbean, Northern-Western Caribbean, North America and Europe.