Charity

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

Maurice Geary, director of Orbis’ Flying Eye Hospital, on the acceleration of blended learning during COVID-19 and how the charity’s training adapted to international lockdown

Open to any UK-registered charity, Solopress has also encouraged organisations working in optics and vision care to enter the prize draw

Sarah Baldock and Nigel Terry completed the 26.2-mile challenge to raise funds for Vision Aid Overseas

The money has been awarded by the Coronavirus Community Support Fund

The new charity combines two grant trusts, which the organisation suggests will allow for more efficient and effective grant giving

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