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Volume 2 Issue 14 - July 15, 2004

‘Vision 2020-India’: restoring sight to the blind

The main aim of this confederation, ‘Vision 2020-India’ is to complement the government in eliminating avoidable blindness in the country. International coordination for the project will be done through ‘Vision 2020 -- the Right to Sight’.

The national secretariat was opened at the Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, where the first meeting of the confederation’s executive committee, was held. The president, R.D. Thulasiraj said that the World Heath Organisation had launched the global initiative for this project, and the Union Government was signatory to it. He said the confederation would conduct awareness programmes and, research would be formally launched at the national level in New Delhi, on October 14, the ‘World Sight Day’.

The members of the confederation include Aravind Eye Hospitals, L.V. Prasad Institute, Hyderabad, Sight Savers International, Seva Foundation, Lions Club International, Operation Sight Universal and ORBIS International.