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. |