CASTRIES LIONS OBSERVE WORLD SIGHT DAY
World Sight Day is an annual day of
awareness to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and
rehabilitation of the visually impaired held on the second Thursday in October.
World Sight Day is observed around the
world by all partners involved in preventing visual impairment or restoring
sight. It is also the main advocacy event for the prevention of blindness and
for "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight", a global effort to prevent
blindness created by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of
Blindness.
Blindness is the
inability to see. The leading causes of chronic blindness include cataract,
glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, corneal opacities, diabetic retinopathy,
trachoma, and eye conditions in children (e.g. caused by vitamin A deficiency).
Age-related blindness is increasing throughout the world, as is blindness due
to uncontrolled diabetes. On the other hand, blindness caused by infection is
decreasing, as a result of public health action. Three-quarters of all
blindness can be prevented or treated.
In observance of World
Sight Day the Lions of Castries spent time with the students of a Grade
Six class of the Marchand Combined School The very interactive discussion with the students involved sharing information on a
definition for sight, the causes of blindness and what can be done to
prevent blindness. At the end of the discussion the students were given
a short quiz and small tokens of appreciation were presented to the
students.
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