Lotus College of Optometry
World Sight Day
World Sight Day
World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. This day is celebrated to create awareness about vision impairment; blindness as well as sight related problems. World Sight Day highlights the importance of good vision for all people. The focus of this day is to educate target audiences about blindness prevention, about VISION 2020 and to generate support for VISION 2020 programme activities. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, approximately 285 million people worldwide suffer from low vision and blindness. Of these, 39 million are blind and 246 million have moderate or severe visual impairment. The major causes of visual impairment are uncorrected refractive errors (43%) and cataract (33%). Most of the blindness (approx 80%) is avoidable i.e. curable or preventable.
In response to WSD every year Lotus college organizes a series of activities in conjunction with Lotus Eye Hospital to generate public awareness on eye care. Besides adult and pediatric eye screening camps, awareness generation is done via rallies, skits, street plays, and posters. Social media is a powerful media to connect worldwide and in fastest speed. This year students created youtube videos on eye care in different languages and made the videos viral for mass awareness.
Mumbai Eye Care Campaign’s Blind Cricket Tournament
Lotus College of Optometry has been associated with blind cricket, as it is authorized to certify for National Blind cricket teams that represents India in international tournaments.
Social inclusion, rehabilitation and advocacy for the visually impaired are the need of the hour. Lotus College of optometry, organized a Blind Cricket Tournament. This was done under the aegis of Mumbai Eye Care Campaign, a project of management of ocular morbidity among the underprivileged population of the city.
The tournament was organized in partnership with Sightsavers and Snehankit Helpline. Lotus College of Optometry used this initiative to promote the need for eye care services among the general population as well as establish the role of optometry as profession. All those who were involved in the event, as participants, volunteers as well as audience thoroughly enjoyed the game.
In response to WSD every year Lotus college organizes a series of activities in conjunction with Lotus Eye Hospital to generate public awareness on eye care. Besides adult and pediatric eye screening camps, awareness generation is done via rallies, skits, street plays, and posters. Social media is a powerful media to connect worldwide and in fastest speed. This year students created youtube videos on eye care in different languages and made the videos viral for mass awareness.
Mumbai Eye Care Campaign’s Blind Cricket Tournament
Lotus College of Optometry has been associated with blind cricket, as it is authorized to certify for National Blind cricket teams that represents India in international tournaments.
Social inclusion, rehabilitation and advocacy for the visually impaired are the need of the hour. Lotus College of optometry, organized a Blind Cricket Tournament. This was done under the aegis of Mumbai Eye Care Campaign, a project of management of ocular morbidity among the underprivileged population of the city.
The tournament was organized in partnership with Sightsavers and Snehankit Helpline. Lotus College of Optometry used this initiative to promote the need for eye care services among the general population as well as establish the role of optometry as profession. All those who were involved in the event, as participants, volunteers as well as audience thoroughly enjoyed the game.
