Campaign SightFirst II (Page 2) - Lions Club of Balla Balla

Campaign SightFirst II (Page 2)

Campaign SightFirst II (Page 2) - Lions Club of Balla Balla

·         Develop sustainable approaches to refractive error in children

·         Develop new capacities for controlling glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy

 

Goal III:   Provide -�Vision for All-� - US$50 million challenge

After reaching the first two goals, a challenge goal of an additional US$50 million will enable Lions to:

·         Fund rehabilitation efforts and education for the already blind

·         Invest in research initiatives at Lions Eye Research Institutes

·         Expand and enhance Lions' sight programs for high-risk populations in developed countries

    Trachoma will also disappear by 2020

·     If we abandon SightFirst, the world's blind population will double by 2020.

SightFirst Success

·         Prevented serious vision loss for 24 million

·         Provided 65 million treatments for river blindness

·         Awarded US$175 million for 724 projects in 88 countries

·         Restored sight to 4.6 million with cataract

·         Improved eye-car services for hundreds of millions

·         Built or expanded 258 eye hospitals and clinics

·         Upgraded 300 eye Centres with equipment

·         Trained 68,000 ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, other professional eye-care workers

·         Launched the world's first initiative to combat childhood blindness in partnership with the World Health Organization.   Thirty pediatric eye-care Centres will be established

 

To learn more about Campaign SightFirst II,

please visit www.Lions-CSFII.org