French Mutuality

The project has been thought to answer to needs of sanitarian and social taking over of populations suffering of visual disabilities in cross-border territories. In particular, users’ associations and project partners have underline two main problematics: the remoteness of people of visual tests programs and re-education services; the weak density of specialised services in rural mountain areas. The project has 6 objectives: 1) Bring an answer of proximity un a medical desert and allow the access to ophthalmologic cares. 2) Give the possibility to do an early ophthalmological test in order to avoid taking over costs, bigger on the long term. 3) Contribute to the well-being in remoted territories through the development of social and cultural activities. 4) Contribute to the maintenance of populations of all ages in cross-border territories. 5) Raising awareness of Public Health policy institutions on the importance of proximity services. 6) Purpose a model of decompartmentalized cooperation to a multidisciplinary health, social and environmental taking over based on WHO (World Health Organisation) recommendations and purpose a more economic model of intervention. The project also included events where cultural activities were used to work with visually impaired children, for example through music therapy, theater, dance, cinema, the creation of illustrated tactile books, etc. The goal of these activities was to allow kids to be in touch with the real world in order to help them clarify their knowledge and capacities of sensory perceptions, to see better, to feel better, to touch better, to hear better.