95 million elderly people are blind or vision impaired
worldwide due to uncorrected refractive error.
World Sight Day - 9th October 2008
With no social welfare system in many developing countries, people have to work to survive
– for most there is no relaxing retirement.
Imagine not being able to work in the fields, cook for your family or even having to keep one of your children or grandchildren out of school so they can be your eyes - preventing them from getting an education simply because you don’t have access to a pair of glasses.
Optometrists from around the world are joining together in the 2008 World Sight Day Challenge
to help those with uncorrected refractive error.
You can take the challenge by:
• Donating your eye exam fees on World Sight Day (or any other day in October)
• And / or becoming a regular donor today or before October 9th
• Planning a practice celebration around this day
(Request your free World Sight Day Challenge practice kit to help promote your practice)
For more information about World Sight Day 2008 please click here.
Online registration will be available from 28th March 2008.
Optometry Giving Sight is a joint initiative of the
World Optometry Foundation (WOF),
the
International Centre
for Eyecare Education (ICEE) and the
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
and supports the goals of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight.
