SightFirst II
You can contact Judith Goodchild for further information at the following email address
sightfirst@hookandodihamlions.co.uk
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.
The SightFirst Program - SightFirst 2 is the second stage of a fundraising campaign to gain money specifically for blindness
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
- Do some fundraising of your own
To f ind out more click on the folloiwng WEB site
www.lionsclubs.org/EN/index.php
