Since 1990, Lions have done more to prevent blindness and restore sight than in their previous 65 years as “knights of the blind.” In a decade-and-a-half, Lions have prevented severe vision loss or restored sight to 27 million people – more than the combined populations of New York and Tokyo.

How is this possible?

SightFirst makes it possible.

SightFirst’s strategy of containing and eliminating the leading causes of blindness, creating sustainable eye-health systems, and training eye-care workers who will serve their communities for years to come, makes it extraordinarily effective and remarkably efficient. On average, just US$6 can save one person from a life of darkness.

SightFirst has touched the lives of tens of millions around the globe. Through SightFirst, Lions are changing the world – and the world now looks to Lions as leaders in the international effort to combat preventable blindness.

Since 1990, SightFirst has…

• Awarded US$211 million for 896 projects in 90 countries
  
• Prevented serious vision loss for 20 million
  
• Provided 80.5 million treatments for river blindness
  
• Restored sight to 7.3 million with cataract
  
• Improved eye-care services for hundreds of millions
  
• Built or expanded 300 eye hospitals, clinics and wards 
  
• Upgraded 337 eye centers with equipment
  
• Trained 345,000 ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, other
  professional eye-care workers and village health workers 
  
• Provided management training for 115 facilities
  
• Launched world's first-ever initiative to combat childhood blindness in partnership with the World Health Organization. Thirty pediatric eye-care centers have been established and have strengthened or improved vision care for more than 71 million children.

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