World Sight Day on Thursday October 10, 2024 focuses the world’s attention on the importance of eye care in young people and inspiring children everywhere to love their eyes.
World Sight Day on Thursday October 10, 2024 focuses the world’s attention on the importance of eye care in young people and inspiring children everywhere to love their eyes.
Calling all photographers! We invite you to capture what it means to #LoveYourEyes by entering the IAPB World Sight Day Photo Competition.
For almost 10 years, the competition has celebrated the work of amateur and professional photographers from around the world. Get those camera's clicking and submit your entries. Great prizes are available. Competition closes on 10 October 2024.
Get involved in World Sight Day by pledging to love your child’s eyes.
Your pledge makes your child’s eye health a top priority and becomes part of a global movement that is calling for accessible, available and affordable eye care for all children everywhere.
Parents and carers, teachers and coaches, we are inviting children to unleash their creativity and design the glasses of the future. What will they look like, what unique functions will they have? When kids invent, they solve problems and create possibilities and we are excited to see designs where no dream is too big or too small. Have kids enter this fun competition open to children from pre-school to grade 7.
Fill out the following form and gain access to a free resource pack, filled with everything you need to campaign including logos, social media content and tool kits as well as fun activities for children like word searches, colouring sheets and more!
Together, we are creating a world where every child has eye health that is accessible, available and affordable.
Starting with a groundswell of young people who are inspired to make their vision a priority. A generation of children who have all the information they need to protect their eyes and, crucially, take the steps needed to look after their vision – from reducing screen time and placing importance on being outside through to seeking help for any ailments and discomfort.
We campaign to ensure that children not only understand the importance of caring for their eye health but are also free from the weight of any social stigma associated with wearing glasses and other corrective treatments.
Through these efforts, governments and those of influence are listening like never before - recognising that early intervention and regular eye health is critical to unlocking education opportunities and future economic potential.
Join us and millions of children globally in making the case loudly and repeatedly that eye health in young people is not an optional extra. It is vital to everything.
World Sight Day would not be possible without the support of the Love Your Eyes Global Partners. We thank them for their unwavering commitment to eye care for everyone, everywhere.
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On World Sight Day, millions of voices are casting a spotlight on children’s eye care and championing eye health for all young people. After all, the healthy lessons we can teach our kids today become the foundation for a lifetime of good vision.
Kid. Barn. Bachcha. Crianca. The terminology for this age group varies around the world and yet, there is one universal constant that unifies them – the escalating risks to their eye health.
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World Sight Day is coordinated by IAPB and supported by almost 200 IAPB Member organisations globally.
No matter where you are or what job you do, it is important to prioritise and protect your eye health at work.
This includes everything from avoiding accidents in the workplace, which are too often caused by or lead to poor vision, to productivity, which is greatly improved when the eye health of workers is a made priority.