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United Kingdom press releases
December, 2007
Practices all across the UK have shown their commitment to ending refractive error blindness in children by donating eye exam fees to Optometry Giving Sight as part of the World Sight Day Challenge. >more
July, 2007
Optometry Giving Sight announced that Bausch & Lomb UK has committed £12,000 to support the elimination of one of the leading causes of blindness and low vision globally >more
May, 2007
The optical industry put competition briefly aside at the BCLA this year in a joint effort to endorse Optometry Giving Sight. >more February 16, 2007
Optometry Giving Sight announced today that Replay Learning, the CET provider, has committed leading causes of blindness and low vision globally – uncorrected refractive error. >more
February, 2007
Optometry Giving Sight announced today that Replay Learning, the CET provider, has committed leading causes of blindness and low vision globally – uncorrected refractive error. >more
February, 2007
This year at Optrafair optometrists have the opportunity to sign up to Optometry Giving Sight’s exciting new campaign, the Practice Giving programme. The campaign, launched in the US, Canada and Australia last year, has seen an overwhelmingly positive response from both patients and staff. >more December, 2006
Children across East Africa will have their sight restored thanks to the generous support of
the UK optometry profession and industry. >more
November, 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO) released new figures on World Sight Day that indicate that “uncorrected refractive error is a leading cause of visual impairment worldwide”. >more
November, 2006
AOP members have been responding positively to Optometry Giving Sight by making a voluntary donation on their AOP membership renewal forms. >more
November, 2006
When a team of optometrists from SightSavers International, the International Centre for
Eyecare Education (ICEE), and the World Council of Optometry examined 120 ‘blind’
children in Malawi, Africa, as part of a survey of ‘blindness’ programs, they found that only
seven of the children were actually permanently blind. >more October, 2006
The Association of Optometrists (AOP) has chosen Optometry Giving Sight as its Official Charity of Choice and urges all optometric practitioners to do the same. >more
October, 2006
Children across East Africa will have their sight restored thanks to the generous support of
the UK optometry profession and industry. Practices around the country rose to the Optometry Giving Sight (Optometry Giving Sight) World Sight Day Challenge and asked their patients to donate £1 to help provide an eye examination and a pair of glasses to children in desperate need. >more
September 2006
When a team of optometrists visited a village in Malawi, Africa, they found 120 children in a program for the blind. And yet a quick examination showed that only seven of the children were permanently blind. The remaining 113 children had easily correctable visual impairments – and 36 of the children only needed a pair of glasses to be able to see well. >more
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