Peek
Create technology [&] health intelligence that empowers healthcare providers to deliver sustainable eye care to everyone
Project start date : 02/01/2012
Beneficiary country : Kenya Botswana Pakistan Zimbabwe
About the project
Over a billion people worldwide are unable to fulfil their potential because they cannot access eye health services. The number of people affected is expected to triple by 2050. Peek is a social enterprise that works with eye health organisations to tackle the global vision crisis.
Peek Solutions are based on smartphone technology and public health expertise. They power eye health providers in low- and middle-income countries to identify and respond to people’s unmet needs.
With Peek, eye health providers can identify gaps and inequalities in their services. People who would have been invisible to health workers or impossible to reach are made visible, so that nobody is left behind.
Peek works in partnership with eye health organisations, governments and international NGOs to make large-scale, sustainable improvements to health systems.
Peek tools are clinically validated and supported by years of research and trials. Our software is secure and we follow global best practice in data security.
285 million people in the world are visually impaired, 39 million people are blind, and 80% of that blindness is avoidable . Over two billion people lack access to eye care. As a result millions suffer avoidable visual impairments. Those most in need are often the most difficult to reach. Getting high quality eye care to people in remote locations is a major challenge causing many people to live unnecessarily with avoidable sight loss. Treatment is often possible at nearby locations, but is not utilised if the patients requiring treatment remain undiscovered. Existing diagnostic equipment tends to be expensive, delicate to transport and requires highly skilled operators and reliable power supply. Peek helps by providing easy to use, portable tools for those most in need.
We focus on solving problems experienced in the most underserved areas of the world and we work directly with local health experts. We observe, innovate and then validate before we look to scale up. We always work within local service capacity and help improve effectiveness through local integrated pathways. We partner with clinical services, ministries of health and education, NGOs and the private sector.
36 Full-Time equivalents
36 Employees
N/C Volunteers
N/C Service providers




300 000
Number of beneficiaries since launch
Target audience
- Healthcare professionals and structures (hospitals, healthcare centres/clinics, health networks)
- Entire population
- Dependents/persons with disabilities
- Children - adolescents (ages 6-18)
Project objectives
- Decreased morbidity
- Reduced suffering
- Improved treatment
Materials used
- Cellular (mobile) phone
- Smartphone
- Tablet
- Computer
Technologies used
- Mobile telecommunications (without data connection)
- Internet
- Geolocation
- Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)
About the sponsor
Peek Vision Foundation
Peek Vision is a social enterprise which develops smartphone technology and public health tools to help eye health organisations improve their services.
The Peek Vision Foundation is a registered charity in the UK which wholly owns a trading company, Peek Vision Ltd. The company creates and distributes software and services to power sustainable, high-impact eye care programmes worldwide.
All profits generated by the Company’s activities belong to the Foundation, which reinvests them in building eye care capacity in low and middle-income countries.
Sector : Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)
Country of origin : United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Contact : Sponsor website Project website
Offline use
Yes
Open source
No
Open data
No
Independent evaluation
Yes, evaluated independently
Partners
CBM International
Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)
International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)
Ministry of Health Kenya
Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)
MInistry of Health & Wellness
Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)
Government of Botswana