School programme · 01
Open Air School
Two days of school-based vision care in Durban, delivered with the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation.
- Location
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
- Dates
- 8–9 October 2024
- Clinical summary
- 11 October 2024
- Grades
- Pre-primary through Grade 12
- Delivery partner
- OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
- Status
- Completed programme
Verified delivery
Support designed around learners and the school day.
Open Air School's acknowledgement records services provided to approximately 98 learners. A clinical delivery summary sent the following day records 99 learners screened, 49 spectacles dispensed and 49 lab orders placed.
Those records describe different parts of the same outreach. We present them separately so that school-reported reach, screening activity, onsite dispensing and pending laboratory fulfilment are not treated as interchangeable.
View the school acknowledgementDocumented outcomes
What the records support, and no more.
The available correspondence establishes that laboratory orders were placed. It does not establish their later fulfilment, so the site does not claim it.
≈98
Learners referenced in the school acknowledgement
School acknowledgement · 10 October 2024
99
Learners screened
Clinical delivery summary · 11 October 2024
49
Spectacles dispensed
Clinical delivery summary · 11 October 2024
49
Lab orders placed
Clinical delivery summary · 11 October 2024
The programme
From screening to support.
Screening
Learners participated in vision screening to identify possible vision needs.
Professional assessment
Learners requiring further care were assessed through the participating eye-care team.
Optical support
Where clinically indicated, spectacles were dispensed onsite or laboratory orders were placed.
Follow-through
Outstanding support was recorded separately rather than counted as completed delivery.
In the field
01—07
From identifying need to fitting the right support.
Reading the record
One programme. Different evidence sources.
The difference between approximately 98 learners in the school acknowledgement and 99 learners in the clinical summary is small, but we do not erase it.
The school letter is evidence of the school's acknowledgement of the services delivered. The clinical summary is the source for screening, dispensing and laboratory-order counts. Neither source should be stretched beyond what it records.
This is programme-level evidence. It is not a national prevalence estimate.
Partnership
Impact is rarely delivered by one organisation alone.
The Open Air School programme was delivered with the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation and the participation of the school community.
Rolled Sleeves coordinates programme access and delivery. Clinical examination, diagnosis and prescribing remain the responsibility of appropriately qualified eye-care professionals.
What this programme taught us
A screening result is not the same thing as completed care.
The programme reinforced why Rolled Sleeves needs a model that tracks the full pathway rather than counting only attendance.
- Screening should connect to an appropriate next step.
- Onsite dispensing and laboratory orders should be reported separately.
- Outstanding fulfilment requires its own follow-through record.
- Schools are essential to coordination and communication.
- Future programmes need consistent reporting from the outset.