Sight For All

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Sight for All is improving the lives of half a million people annually. Its impact is growing every year.

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Sight for All Visionaries donate up to $2 million worth of expertise every year.

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45 million = the number of people worldwide who are blind.

90% of these people live in developing countries.

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Throughout the world there are 1.4 million children who are blind.

Asia is home to two thirds of the world’s blind children.

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Up to half of all children in schools for the blind in developing countries have blindness that could have been avoided.

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10,000 = the amount of hours Sight For All’s team of eye care specialists will donate to sight-saving training overseas each year.

$0 = the amount that Sight For All’s team of eye care specialists will be paid for their critical work.

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Glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness.

Diabetic eye disease is the fastest growing cause of vision loss in many poor communities of the world.

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Cataract is the leading cause of blindness among Aboriginal Australians. Unfortunately, less than one quarter of patients requiring surgery go through with their sight-restoring operations.

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Diabetes is the fastest growing cause of visual loss in the adult Aboriginal population, but most with diabetes are not being adequately screened or treated for its blinding complications.

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Sight For All trained Myanmar’s first children’s eye specialist, Dr Than Htun Aung, for 12 months in Adelaide. Since Dr Aung’s return home in 2010, there has been a 12 times increase in the number of children’s eye surgeries performed in Myanmar.

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Sight For All has equipped 32 regional eye centres in Myanmar and 7 in Lao, allowing the eye surgeons to markedly increase the number of cataract surgeries they perform.

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Throughout the world 270 million people are vision impaired due to eye disease or lack of glasses.

80% of this visual impairment is preventable or treatable.