Lions Outback Vision : Saving Sight with a Lens to the Future / Luis Gil, Nuno Gil, Leandro S. Pongeluppe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gil, Luís, author.

Gil, Nuno, author.

Pongeluppe, Leandro S., author.

Series:

SAGE business cases.

SAGE business cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals, 2025.

Summary:

This case focuses on intersectoral collaboration across private, public, and nonprofit actors to reduce inequality in eye care in the Pilbara region in Western Australia. As part of a commitment to reduce disparities in eye care, the protagonist, Angus Turner, Director of Lions Outback Vision (LOV), has just delivered the launch speech for a new Sprinter van--a four-wheel-drive van with which LOV is proposing to bring eye care to remote Aboriginal communities. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups, Australia's First Peoples, who have been living on the continent for millennia, are 14 times more likely to suffer diabetes-related blindness and five times more likely to have refractive error blindness than Australia's White population. Elders from the local Jigalong Aboriginal community, staff of the local Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service, and members of the LOV team all attended the speech in Newman, in the heart of the Pilbara region, and saw the next innovation in remote eye care proposed. As Angus flies back to Broome, also in Western Australia, where the LOV operations are primarily based, his task will be to determine the best approach to convince a diverse group of stakeholders, notably the Government of Western Australia, representatives of the Aboriginal population, and some of the world's largest mining companies, that his idea can succeed in tackling eye-care inequality, and in so doing, win AUD 5 million through the Pilbara Challenge prize to further the LOV mission.

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ISBN:

9781071976265

1071976265

OCLC:

1483993788