Lions World Sight Day

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. On October 9, 2011, Lions celebrated World Sight Day in Shenzhen, China. During this event, Lions screened and provided eyeglasses to thousands of under served people and inaugurated the Lions Low Vision Rehabilitation Clinic.

We also held a press conference to announce the launch SightFirst China Action III, which includes new low vision programs and a program to eliminate blinding trachoma in China by 2016. President Wing-Kun Tam led the events and was joined by Lions Executive Officers, members of the Board of Trustees and Chinese Lions as well as representatives from the China Disabled Persons' Federation, Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, local and municipal governments and other dignitaries.