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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More than one in three people have reported deteriorating eyesight due to increased screen time during the pandemic, Fight for Sight says
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The charity has launched a survey to gather insight in light of continued COVID-19 restrictions
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The charity wants to highlight the need for more positive representations of disability in children’s literature
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The Macular Society has teamed up with four other charities to host a Zoom event on 26 November
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The challenge is aiming to raise money for the Royal Society for Blind Children and ChildVision
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Kashinath Bhoosnurmath, VP of international programmes at Operation Eyesight in Hyderabad, tells OT why governments and NGOs need to work together to avoid a “looming sight crisis”
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Sumrana Yasmin, global technical lead on refractive error at Sightsavers, tells OT about the charity’s mission to ensure that eye care is included as part of the global COVID-19 recovery
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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 300-piece kits feature Lego bricks specially moulded with studs to represent letters and numbers in the Braille alphabet