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Lions Sight Savers Trust
Lions Sight Savers Trust
Contact details
| Name: | Trustees for the Lions Sight Savers Trust: David Firth / Patrick Hamblin |
| Email: | patrick.hamblin@btinternet.com |
| Name: | MD Sight Officer: Sue Taylor |
| Email: | susantaylor158@btinternet.com |
| Name: | Sightsavers – see website: http://www.sightsavers.org/ |
| Email: | lions@sightsavers.org |
Key information
For over 40 years, Lions clubs across the British Isles have supported Sightsavers through the Lions Sight Savers Trust, to help stop thousands of people across Africa and Asia from going blind. An incredible £3.9 million has been donated from Lions clubs during this time.
Lions Sight Savers Trust
Bringing crucial eye health services to the most marginalised.
Eye health for everyone
Good vision is of paramount importance in many aspects of life, and visual impairment imposes a significant economic and social burden on individuals, carers, communities, and societies. Despite the ongoing challenges posed by COVID-19, Sightsavers continues to provide vital eye care to ensure those most in need can access much-needed diagnoses and life-changing treatments. Blindness and poverty are closely linked, and a vicious cycle exists where a lack of health awareness and health services leads to poor eye health, which, in turn, can lead to blindness and increased poverty. We need your help to continue transforming the lives of so many children and adults at risk of losing their sight in some of the poorest parts of the world. The pandemic is far from over, and it’s more important than ever for us to raise awareness of global visual impairment and celebrate the importance of sight.
One boy to have benefitted is Aaron – without treatment for cataracts, he was at risk of a life of blindness. Fortunately, his life has been completely transformed after having his eyes examined at a Sightsavers screening camp. Read Aaron’s story through the link below.
More than ever, your support is needed to ensure that marginalised people in some of the poorest parts of the world are not being left behind and can access the treatment they urgently need. We hope you will continue to support Lions Sight Savers this year.
Donations should be sent to the District Treasurer by cheque, made payable to the District, and endorsed on the back: ‘Lions Sight Savers’.
For further information please read the letter and the latest information below.
Donations by Lions clubs make a difference:
- £90 would pay for a child cataract surgery
- £300 would pay for personal protective equipment, including face masks and protective gowns, which are urgently needed for safe eye screenings and operations
- £1,000 would cover the cost of distributing more than 450 pairs of glasses
- £3,000 would cover the cost of screening 3,750 people for a range of eye conditions
- £5,000 would restore the sight of over 178 adults, saving them from a lifetime of blindness.
About Sightsavers
Sightsavers’ vision is a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes, and people with visual impairments and other disabilities can participate equally in society.
More than 2.2 billion people in the world are blind or visually impaired. Over 1 billion have a condition that could have been prevented or can be treated. Of these, 89% live in countries where healthcare and social support systems are severely lacking. Simple eye health interventions – such as a cataract operation or a pair of glasses – cost relatively little and can drastically improve a person’s life.
Sightsavers works with governments and local partners in Asia and Africa to create robust and lasting eye health services to help people now and in the future. It provides eye operations for people who need them, and trains eye care workers and surgeons to offer sight-saving treatment. Through community volunteers, Sightsavers distributes medication to protect people from diseases in some of the world’s poorest countries. Since its work began in 1950, Sightsavers has helped to provide 8 million cataract operations, examined over 200 million people for eye conditions, and trained over 8,000 health workers to gain an initial professional qualification.
In 2022, Sightsavers aims to deliver:
- over 460,000 life-changing surgeries
- distribute more than 100 million treatments for neglected tropical diseases
- dispense over 600,000 pairs of glasses.
We hope Lions clubs will feel moved to support another year of our life-changing work.