World Sight Day - 9th October

 

 

 

 

 

We recently had an email from a company in the USA about helping them to spread the word about ‘World Sight Day’ which is on 9th October this year.

Now I didn’t know much about this but having looked into it, it seems to be a worthwhile event which needs support.

Taken from their site: 

World Site Day is a global event included in the World Health Organization’s official calendar and held every second Thursday of October. World Sight Day 2008 will focus on the Ageing Eye:

1. About 300 million people are living with a serious vision impairment
2. 90 % live in developing countries with little chance of proper treatment
3. More than 80 % of the people living with blindness are over 50 years of age
4. Yet 75 % of blindness cases are preventable, curable, or treatable

Over 150 million people live with defective eyesight simply because of uncorrected refractive errors.

We urge you to visit www.v2020.org/wsd08 and http://www.iapb.org/ for more information on how you can help!

Thank you,

The Optometry Blog.

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