- Blindness and visual impairment affects children both directly and indirectly. Visual impairment in a child limits her access to educational and self-development opportunities. Vision loss in a family member can place a child in the position of carer.
- Almost 50 percent of the world's 1.4 million blind children are needlessly blind.
- Keep watch on your child's sight with early screening, vitamin-A rich foods, eye hygiene and safety.
- Prenatal and antenatal care can avoid blindness that results from malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, and to some extent, retinopathy of prematurity.
- Setting the child at the centre of blindness prevention efforts ensures a brighter future for all.
- Glaucoma and cataract are not only adult problems juvenile cataract and developmental glaucoma are responsible for a significant amount of childhood blindness in many populations.
- Comprehensive care means timely care. Early intervention is key to avoiding many blinding conditions in children.
- A pair of spectacles could bring the world into focus for your child! Refractive error is the greatest cause of avoidable visual impairment among children!
- VISION 2020 programmes address blindness in children as a major public health priority.
- Vision care for the caregiver is care for the child.
- Every 5 seconds someone in the world goes blind and a child goes blind every minute.
- VISION 2020: The Right to Sight is a global collaboration of the World Health Organization (WHO) with the IAPB international coalition of organizations committed to the elimination of avoidable blindness worldwide by the year 2020.
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