About World Sight Day

World Sight Day is an initiative of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO); the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and non-government organizations with the shared goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020, in order to give all people in the world the right to sight. This year, World Sight Day will be held on Thursday October 13, and focuses on VISION 2020's theme of the 'Countdown to 2020'.

About the World Sight Day Challenge

The World Sight Day Challenge is a major fundraising campaign coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight® which is designed to raise funds for projects that provide eye exams and glasses, local training and infrastructure support for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error – simply the need for an eye exam and a pair of glasses.