NOOR's Provincial Ophthalmic Care (POC) project provides primary eye care to areas that do not have access to eye care facilities.

Non-surgical clinics run by ophthalmic technicians are run on a weekly basis in Kabul, Nangahar, and Parwan provinces.

In the last year:

• 3 eye camps run by the Ministry of Public Health and the World Health Organization were supported by the POC project.
• A school screening project was implemented and 34,249 children were screened for eye problems.
• An outpatient examination clinic continued in Charikar, a heavily populated area north of Kabul
• Logistical support was given to community eye hospitals founded by IAM NOOR in Ghazni and Khost. These facilities are financially independent but work in cooperation with IAM.
• Surgical eye camps were run by the POC project in Bamyan and Lal. 167 surgeries were performed.
• A new ophthalmic technician training curriculum was designed in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Health.
• A day clinic was established in the IAM-run hospital at Lal wa Sarjangal in the central highlands of the country.
• A total of 75,462 beneficiaries were seen by the POC project in 2008.