Lions World Sight Day

Focusing Attention on Preventing Blindness and Improving Sight

For more than 12 years, Lions World Sight Day, held annually in October, has focused attention on eliminating preventable blindness and improving sight. On World Sight Day, Lions clubs around the world conduct special sight-related projects including:

• Collecting eyeglasses

• Conducting vision and diabetes screenings

• Planning educational programs to inform their communities about the importance of eye health – and diseases such as diabetes that can impair sight

International World Sight Day Event

Lions Clubs International also sponsors an annual international event on World Sight Day. In 2010, Lions World Sight Day events will be held October 7 and 8 in Osaka, Japan. President Sid Scruggs III and his wife Judy will take part in the events.

• Lions, together with President Scruggs and the Mayor of Osaka who is a Lion, will inaugurate a new feature at the local zoo for blind and visually impaired to experience the zoo.
• Several outreach events will take place at the Nippon Lighthouse for the Blind.
• Equipment will be donated to a school for the blind.