Blindness is a gender issue. Blindness discriminates. Fifty-five per cent of the world’s blind are women and girls. More than 20 million women and girls are blind, and 120 million are visually impaired. Four out of five people who are blind don’t need to be. And this injustice is magnified in developing countries. Women face… Continue reading Empowering women in unexpected ways
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Creative Impact – risk-taking and innovation for the charitable sector
Last month, Operation Eyesight hosted a group of philanthropists as part of an educational series featuring Dan Pallotta – author of “Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential.” The Stanford Social Innovation Review said that the book “deserves to become the nonprofit sector’s new manifesto,” and we couldn’t agree more. Pallotta touched on a… Continue reading Creative Impact – risk-taking and innovation for the charitable sector
World Sight Day with Operation Eyesight
On World Sight Day, Operation Eyesight put Vision First around the world. Below is just a few of the things we took part in. Everything that we do is thanks to our amazing donors! Vision First for surgery patients in Ghana We celebrated in Ghana by literally putting Vision First! Our partner hospital, Watborg Eye… Continue reading World Sight Day with Operation Eyesight
World Sight Day: Time for us all to take action in the global effort to eliminate avoidable blindness
Those who live long enough will experience at least one eye condition during their lifetime. Today, on World Sight Day, I encourage us all to make eye health a global priority. The burden of vision impairment weighs more heavily on low- and middle-income countries, and the global demand for eye care is set to surge… Continue reading World Sight Day: Time for us all to take action in the global effort to eliminate avoidable blindness
