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Getting prevention of blindness onto the healthcare agenda of the WHO and its member states ensured that those countries included allocations for eye care in their budgets. World Sight Day also helps to raise awareness of blindness and visual impairment. [8] Between 1990 and 2020, the age-standardised global prevalence of blindness fell by 28.5%.
World Sight Day, observed annually on the second Thursday of October, is a global event meant to draw attention to blindness and vision impairment. It was originally initiated by the SightFirstCampaign of Lions Club International Foundation in 2000.
Of those who are blind 90% live in the developing world. [78] Worldwide for each blind person, an average of 3.4 people have low vision, with country and regional variation ranging from 2.4 to 5.5. [79] By age: Visual impairment is unequally distributed across age groups. More than 82% of all people who are blind are 50 years of age and older ...
Vision 2020 was created with the goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by 2020. Also in 2000, Sightsavers participated in the first World Sight Day, which is now held annually in October. In 2012, Sightsavers led a consortium to set up the Global Trachoma Mapping Project, funded by the UK Department for International Development.
In 1984, the WCWB merged with the International Federation of the Blind IFB, forming the World Blind Union WBU during a founding assembly held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This new organization expanded the WCWB's mission, aiming to provide a unified platform for blind and partially sighted individuals to advocate for their rights on a global scale.
Iowa has long been recognized as innovative with respect to the blind, seeing the need to enable the blind to compete on a footing of equality. Iowa History Month: How Kenneth Jernigan transformed ...
The stated goal of the World Blind Union is a global community where people who are blind or partially sighted are empowered to participate on an equal basis in any aspect of life they choose. The purpose of the World Blind Union is a worldwide movement of blind and partially sighted people acting on their own behalf to make the world a better ...
South Sudan’s Blind Premier League is backed by Light for the World, a non-governmental organization that works for disability rights and inclusion in South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya ...