Jakarta – World Sight Day is celebrated every Thursday of the second week of October. This year, World Sight Day 2025 will fall on October 9. According to Who, World Sight Day, is an opportunity to emphasize the importance of protecting our eyes and vision, to raise awareness of visual impairment and blindness and promote eye and vision care. The following is information on World Sight Day 2025. Browse to continue with the content according to the National Today page, World Sight Day was initiated by the Lions Clubs International Foundation by the ‘Sightfirstcampaign’ to raise awareness about preventable blindness and help the blind. In 1917, Melvin Jones Lions Clubs International (LCI), a service organization. Lions Clubs International has organized various projects around the world, such as fundraising for victims of typhoon and cyclone, diagnosis and treatment of hearing impaired, community charges and cancer screening projects. One of Lions Clubs International’s most famous projects is the ‘SightFirst’ campaign. This campaign was started in 1990, and aims to combat blindness as a result of trachoma and other causes of blindness. This campaign has helped more than 488 million people with visual impairments. During the ‘sightfirst’ campaign in 2000, Lions Clubs International and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) named World Sight Day every second Thursday in October. The main purpose is to draw public attention to the importance of safe practices to prevent blindness and other vision problems. This day is celebrated by millions of people around the world to raise awareness about eye care and also to appreciate the gift of sight, which in all respects is a blessing. Today is also a step towards the ‘Vision 2020’ of the World Health Organization, which aims to ‘strengthen and accelerate the prevention of blindness to achieve the goal of eliminating preventable blindness by 2020.’ In May 2024, the Global Specs 2030 launched initiative to ensure access to quality, affordable glasses and related community-centered services for anyone who needed it. Theme for World Sight Day 2025 Quote from the website of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), World Sight Day 2025 has the theme #Loveyoureyes. World Sight Day focuses the world’s attention on the importance of eye care and wants to inspire everyone at all ages and stages to love your eyes. (KNY/IMK)
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