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International alliance of over 250 members. Working for a world where no one is needlessly visually impaired or blind | #LoveYourEyes | Home of #WorldSightDay
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Excited to have the team fro Arclight Project joining us in Nepal for 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE! Make sure to stop by and say hello in the Marketplace!




Day 2 of #2030InSight LIVE proved what’s possible when we unite for vision. Let’s keep that energy going. Join us online for Day 3: brnw.ch/21wSkCY #EyeHealthForAll #2030InSight #EyeCare #Nepal #SDGs Caroline Casey




🆕 Today World Health Organization (WHO) together with Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population launched the SPECS 2030 initiative in #Nepal 🇳🇵 with the goal of improving the vision and quality of life for tens of thousands of Nepalese people. Learn more 🔗 shorturl.at/cmjBW





✅ Approved! The 🆕 WHO resolution on sensory impairments has been approved at #WHA78, calling for integrated eye & ear care across the life course. CBM Christian Blind Mission joined IAPB, Malaysia, Slovakia Slovenia, & Paraguay in co-hosting the side-event: “Eye Health Has 2030 In Sight”




📣 There are just over two weeks left to apply for funding to join the world-renowned Global Eye Health short course run by International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH). See full details about the funding available through the Peek Vision Foundation's Karen Sparrow scholarship: peekvision.org/about/foundati…

In a modest room with six computers at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in #Hyderabad, a transformation is under way. Here, individuals with visual impairment, both young and old, are learning to type, guided by voices from the computers, writes Siddharth Kumar Singh trib.al/KjKvsj3


Burundi 🇧🇮 has been validated by World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. It is the 8th country in the WHO African Region and the 24th country globally to achieve this milestone. Congratulations Burundi !brnw.ch/21wU4TB…c-health-problem/

