World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness and advocacy held on the second Thursday of October to focus global attention on the causes and consequences of vision impairment. This year, on October 8, Operation Eyesight celebrated #HopeinSight across our global offices in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and North America. We called our… Continue reading AROUND THE WORLD SIGHT DAY with Operation Eyesight
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The impact of school closures in Kenya goes beyond education
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread throughout the world, societies are adapting to stringent cleaning practices, social distancing measures, and, where possible, distance working and learning. In Canada, most schools across the country closed their physical doors in March, leaving students to finish out their remaining school terms online. Now, many schools are reopening… Continue reading The impact of school closures in Kenya goes beyond education
Operation Eyesight welcomes the newly adopted IPEC resolution by the WHO
The recent adoption of the World Health Assembly resolution, ‘Integrated people-centred eye care, including preventable vision impairment and blindness’ (IPEC resolution), by 194 countries is a major milestone for global eye health. In 2019, the World Health Organization launched the World Report on Vision. The first report of its kind, it laid out a comprehensive global… Continue reading Operation Eyesight welcomes the newly adopted IPEC resolution by the WHO
Why community health workers are so crucial
Rupoda is a community health worker based out of the Borhola Vision Centre in the Indian state of Assam. Over the last four years she has been educating her community about eye health and referring those who need follow-up care to the vision centre. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has hindered eye health activities in Assam,… Continue reading Why community health workers are so crucial
