World Sight Day today
Thursday, 13 October 2011
World Sight Day will be observed today (Thursday) in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world for highlighting the problems of visually impaired people, reports UNB.
The day an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of the visually impaired is observed on the second Thursday in October. It is also the main advocacy event for the prevention of blindness and for "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight", a global effort to prevent blindness created by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. This year, there is no global theme for World Sight Day 2011 (WSD11), which Vision 2020 hopes will allow each participating organisation to use the occasion to highlight its own priority areas, in ways which will resonate with their own target audiences.
The day an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of the visually impaired is observed on the second Thursday in October. It is also the main advocacy event for the prevention of blindness and for "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight", a global effort to prevent blindness created by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. This year, there is no global theme for World Sight Day 2011 (WSD11), which Vision 2020 hopes will allow each participating organisation to use the occasion to highlight its own priority areas, in ways which will resonate with their own target audiences.