Charity
The latest news from charities within the optical sector
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The Thomas Pocklington Trust, working with the RNIB and Glaucoma UK, has produced a video to represent how the world can look to people with vision impairment
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Larry Benjamin, retired ophthalmic consultant and an overseas volunteer with Orbis for 16 years, on scaling up the charity’s remote training capabilities in light of COVID-19
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Reducing impact of sight loss by 1% could save the UK economy billions by the end of the decade, the charity has revealed
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The Songs of Praise presenter visited East Africa with international disability charity CBM
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More than 50,000 people have been screened and 2300 have received cataract surgery
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Sightsavers’ director of global individual giving and marketing, Becki Jupp, tells OT about the charity’s latest campaign that aims to help eliminate trachoma worldwide
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Second Sight volunteer is raising funds to provide cataract operations in Bihar
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A charity’s goal of raising funds for one million cataract operations in Africa and Asia is almost reached
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Sightsavers’ Imran Khan talks with OT about empowering individuals and communities through cataract surgery