VISION2020: We’re half way to eliminating avoidable blindness globally
14 October 2010
This World Sight Day, 14 October, ‘VISION2020: The Right to Sight will be celebrating reaching the half way mark of their goal to eliminate avoidable blindness across the globe by 2020.
How we’re involved
Seeing is Believing is the biggest single corporate investor in VISION2020. We will be celebrating our own success of completing a target which we set in 2006. We have raised a total of US$10 million and through this, reached 10 million people in 20 counties.
Our new target is to raise US$20 million to provide sustainable eye-care services for 20 million people in 20 cities by 2014.
About the event
It’s not just a celebration of the success of VISION2020, it’s also about encouraging the audience to get:
- Governments to use their resources to support VISION2020 in their own counties and also in developing countries
- Eye care doctors to continue working together to perform sustainable eye treatments.
Held at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, the ‘CERN Globe of Science and Innovation’ event is attended by VISION2020 ambassadors, such as the Countess of Wessex, leading eye care experts and key corporate supporters such as Standard Chartered Bank.
What is Vision2020?
VISION2020 was set up in 2000 and is a joint programme between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). It aims to help prevent blindness for 100 million people worldwide, and to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020.
Read about some of the people who we have helped
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