Sight Savers launches new campaign to help children in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean


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In February, Sight Savers International - the charity dedicated to preventing and curing blindness in developing countries - launched a new campaign geared towards ‘making needless blindness disappear.’

The charity is setting out to raise £1 million and will use the money to treat over three million children in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

Treatment these days for many eye conditions is very straightforward and relatively cheap. For example, the cost of removing a cataract on child’s eye is just £18 and it only requires 50p to protect a youngster from river blindness – even less to remedy blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency.

Cherie Blair is one of the campaign’s most vociferous supporters, saying, ‘It is tragic when anybody loses their sight. However when a person goes blind for no good reason when their sight could be saved with the correct treatment, it is not tragic, it is unacceptable’.
Sight Savers was originally founded in 1950 by Sir John Wilson, who was himself blind. 1958 the charity was rebranded the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. The its name changed again in 1987, following a Blue Peter competition when the title Sight Savers was adopted as it was considered to more closely represent what the actually does charity does.

www.sightsavers.org.uk

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