Our Branches

The Gambia — where I See You All's first international branch stands.

Our work now crosses an ocean. This page tells our branch story the way we tell it — clearly labeled as our own account — and points you to a sourced, dated public guide to eye care in The Gambia.

Concept illustration of a Gambian eye-health worker examining an elderly woman's eyes as a nurse steadies her shoulder, with other patients waiting in the clinic room behind — not a photograph from The Gambia — Concept imagery Local clinic care: an elder's eyes examined with steady hands and a steady shoulder beside her. Concept art from the redesign exploration — not branch photography.

Concept illustration of a young Gambian woman guiding an elderly blind man by the arm down a sandy village path as neighbors watch from their doorways — not a photograph from The Gambia — Concept imagery Mutual support: no one makes the road to care alone. Concept art from the redesign exploration — not branch photography.

Our Story

The first branch beyond the United States.

Org-stated I See You All — a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit — states that it has established its first international branch in The Gambia.

Org-stated The organization's own account is that the branch has provided multiple eye surgeries. That account is I See You All's story of its own work. No independent third-party count exists in our research, so we label it as ours and leave the number to the verified record below rather than rounding it up.

We think that is the honest way to build a page: our story stays ours, labeled as such — and the facts we did not generate carry their sources and a verification date.

Where a claim is ours, it says so. Where a claim comes from outside research, it carries a source link and a verified date.

Concept illustration of a Gambian nurse screening a schoolboy's vision in a classroom while his classmates wait in line — not a photograph from The Gambia — Concept imagery Early care: children's vision checked in the classroom, so a squint never becomes a barrier to learning. Concept art from the redesign exploration — not branch photography.

Concept illustration of four Gambian eye-care professionals standing together after an outreach day, one holding an equipment case — not a photograph from The Gambia — Concept imagery The local team: eye-care professionals after an outreach day, equipment packed and ready for the next one. Concept art from the redesign exploration — not branch photography.

Branch Record

Key figures — placeholders pending verification

We publish branch numbers only when they have been verified by the founder. Until then, these stay open — nothing here is filled in to look complete.

Eye surgeries provided by the branch: Figure pending — to be supplied and verified by the founder
Branch established: Year pending — to be supplied and verified by the founder
Local partnerships: Details pending — to be supplied and verified by the founder

Why The Gambia

A documented need, a working system.

The Gambia has a genuine, documented, tiered national eye-care system: community-level primary eye care, regional secondary eye units and vision centres, and the Sheikh Zayed Regional Eye Care Centre as the tertiary referral hospital. The need inside that system is large, measured — and largely treatable.

71% of blindness is caused by cataract — 2019 national survey, adults 35+

Source: BJO 2023, Table 4 · verified 2026-10-21

45.9% of adults 35+ need near glasses

Source: IJERPH 2021 · verified 2026-10-21

<4% glasses coverage — near and distance (5.6% of adults 35+ need distance glasses)

Source: OneSight fact sheet, Nov 2025 · verified 2026-10-21

2025 The Gambia became a WHO SPECS 2030 pioneer country

Source: WHO AFRO, Oct 2026 · verified 2026-10-21

The surveyed figures above come from the 2019 Gambia National Eye Health Survey — 9,188 adults aged 35 and over examined — and related published research. They are measured, not modelled, and we keep them that way on every page.

Sources: Hydara et al., BJO 2023 (2019 national survey) · Boggs et al., IJERPH 2021 · OneSight Gambia fact sheet, Nov 2025 · WHO AFRO, 1 Oct 2026 · verified 2026-10-21.

Next Step

The Eyecare Resources Center.

We built a plain-language public guide to eye care in The Gambia: where to get care — by level — how the referral pathway works, costs and coverage, which programs are active, common eye conditions, and what to do in an urgent situation. Health information, not medical advice.

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