Campaign Sight First II
District 2-S3 Chair -  C. Ray Schoch
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2007-2008
District 2-S3, MD-2 Texas

Campaign SightFirst II will enable Lions to expand the extraordinary work of SightFirst. The goal is to raise at least US$150 million to continue to prevent blindness and restore sight.

SightFirst has:

* Awarded US$191 million for 792 projects in 89 countries
* Restored sight to 7 million with cataract
* Prevented serious vision loss for 20 million
* Improved eye care services for hundreds of millions
* Provided 70 million treatments for river blindness
* Built or expanded 207 eye hospitals/clinics/wards
* Upgraded 314 eye centers with equipment
* Provided management training for 109 facilities
* Trained 300,000 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.

Campaign SightFirst II

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 Last Updated: 03/22/2008