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Business plans set their sights on India
When the Financial Times and Sightsavers, the international charity, launched the MBA Challenge in January, the aim was to find a solution to the difficulty of marketing spectacles to young people in emerging markets
Hospital charts a record
To create awareness among the public on the need for preventive eye care and also to mark World Sight Day on October 12, Sankara Eye Hospital Sightsavers and Essilor jointly created what they claimed was the world’s largest vision chart here on Thursday
Cherishing Vision
A photography exhibition of pictures clicked by school students will be held in the city on Sunday
The sheer joy of giving sight to the blind
The second Thursday of October each year is dedicated to raising global awareness about the problems of blindness, visual impairment and the rehabilitation of the visually impaired
World Sight Day - Oct 11, 2012
World Sight Day is an international day of awareness, held annually on the second Thursday of October to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment
Move to make visually impaired self-reliant
In a novel initiative aimed at liberating the visually impaired children from a feeling of inferiority and despondence and enabling development of all-round skills, confidence and capabilities, the JPM Rotary Eye Hospital and Research Institute in association with the State Government and Sightsavers International has launched a skill development programme for such young ones
Antarchakshu, the eye within - an exclusive eye care campaign
"Antarchakshu – The Eye Within", an exclusive eye care event organized by the Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), is a part of the Mumbai Eye Care Campaign of Sightsavers (supported through the Seeing is Believing programme of the Standard Chartered Bank)
Antarchakshu, the eye within - an exclusive eye care campaign
Antarchakshu - The Eye Within, is an event organized by the Xavier's Resource Centre for the visually Challenged (XRCVC), St
Photography contest on Facebook
Through Different Eyes, an awareness initiative by Sightsavers has launched a photography contest on popular social networking website, Facebook
