HOOK & ODIHAM LIONS

SightFirst II

There are many ways in which you can help us to help others and you don't even have to be a member!

It’s a stark fact - by the time you finish reading this page, one child somewhere in the world will have gone blind. 

One goes blind every minute. Half-a-million will have lost their sight by the end of the year.

Childhood blindness is only one part of the global vision crisis. If nothing is done, experts say that the world’s blind population could double from 37 million to 74 million by 2020.

Since 1990, Lions have done more to prevent blindness and restore sight than in their previous 65 years as “knights of the blind.” In a decade-and-a-half, Lions have prevented severe vision loss or restored sight to 27 million people – more than the combined populations of New York and Tokyo.

Since 1990, SightFirst has…

• Prevented serious vision loss for 27 million
• Provided 80.5 million treatments for river blindness
• Awarded US$202 million for 841 projects in 90 countries
• Restored sight to 7 million with cataract
• Improved eye-care services for hundreds of millions
• Built or expanded 213 eye hospitals, clinics and wards 
• Upgraded 325 eye centers with equipment
• Trained 305,000 ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, other professional eye-care workers and village health workers 
• Launched world's first-ever initiative to combat childhood blindness in partnership with the World Health Organization. Thirty pediatric eye-care centers will be established   

  How can you help?

• Make a donation

• Find out more - click here to see the Lion's Sightfirst 2 website

• Do some fundraising of your own

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