CBM President Allen Foster: "World Sight Day Appeals To All Of Us"

Only 50 Euro can restore sight to a person blinded by cataract

Portrait Allen Foster.
Allen Foster, CBM President and professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Dept. of Infections and Tropical Diseases). © CBM
"There are 17 million people in the world who are blind from cataract. A cataract operation costing less than 50 Euro could help these people see tomorrow. The 17 million statistic are fathers who seek to earn a living to feed their families, mothers who want to look after their children, and newborn children whose opportunities in life will be drastically reduced if they do not receive the specialist surgery they require.

World Sight Day reminds us all of the ongoing need to restore Sight to those who have curable blindness. CBM is committed to use its human and financial resources to enable our partners worldwide to provide preventive, medical and rehabilitation services for people with visual disability."

Allen Foster
CBM President

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