Screening must connect to follow-up
Identifying a need is only useful if the learner can access the next step.
Impact
Measure the work. Learn from it. Improve it.
Rolled Sleeves documents what was delivered, what support learners received, what remained outstanding and what each programme teaches us about improving access.
Impact should be demonstrated through evidence, follow-through and transparent reporting.
Explore our programmesHow we measure
Impact is more than attendance.
A successful outreach is not simply the number of learners who passed through a screening station.
We look at the pathway:
- How many learners were reached?
- How many required further assessment?
- What support was recommended?
- What was actually delivered?
- What remained outstanding?
- Which referrals required follow-up?
- What did we learn for the next programme?
School programme · 2024
Open Air School
A two-day school-based vision-care programme delivered with the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, connecting screening with professional care and optical support.
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99
Learners screened
49
Spectacles dispensed
49
Lab orders placed
Clinical delivery summary · 11 October 2024. The available records establish that 49 lab orders were placed; they do not establish later fulfilment, so we do not report those orders as delivered.
Reading the data
Numbers need context.
The Open Air School figures describe one programme at one school. They are not national prevalence figures or evidence of national reach.
The school acknowledgement refers to services provided to approximately 98 learners, while the clinical delivery summary records 99 learners screened. We keep those records distinct rather than forcing them into a single number.
Programme-level results stay programme-level.
Learning from delivery
Every programme should improve the next one.
Delivery must be tracked
Prescriptions, laboratory orders, referrals and assistive support should not disappear into separate systems.
Schools matter
Educators and school staff are essential to coordination, communication and follow-through.
Different learners need different support
Not every learner requires the same intervention.
Reporting matters
Programme records should show where delivery worked, where evidence is incomplete and where gaps remain.
Programme archive
Our work, school by school.
As Rolled Sleeves grows, each school programme will be documented using the same reporting structure rather than folded into one inflated organisation-wide counter.
Durban · October 2024
Open Air School
Two days of school-based vision services, professional care and optical support.
View programme recordImpact framework
Better reporting starts with better questions.
Reach
How many learners and schools participated?
Need
What kinds of vision needs were identified?
Access
How many learners reached the next stage of care?
Delivery
What support was actually provided?
Follow-through
Which referrals, prescriptions or devices remained outstanding?
Learning
What should change before the next programme?
Equity
Where are access barriers appearing most consistently?
Our reporting principle
Report what the records support. Say when they do not.
We publish programme figures only where they can be supported by our records and partner documentation. Where evidence remains incomplete, we say so.
Each programme should also acknowledge the schools, eye-care professionals, funders and delivery partners who contributed to the work.
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Help us turn individual programmes into a stronger system.
Every school programme gives Rolled Sleeves more evidence about what practical eye-care access requires. We use that evidence to improve delivery before expanding further.