Charity

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

More than one in three people have reported deteriorating eyesight due to increased screen time during the pandemic, Fight for Sight says

The charity has launched a survey to gather insight in light of continued COVID-19 restrictions

The charity wants to highlight the need for more positive representations of disability in children’s literature

The Macular Society has teamed up with four other charities to host a Zoom event on 26 November

The challenge is aiming to raise money for the Royal Society for Blind Children and ChildVision

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”

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

Reducing impact of sight loss by 1% could save the UK economy billions by the end of the decade, the charity has revealed

The 300-piece kits feature Lego bricks specially moulded with studs to represent letters and numbers in the Braille alphabet