Childhood Vision Campaign

I worked with Seva to develop the Childhood Vision Campaign to prevent blindness and restore sight in developing countries where tens of thousands of children go blind every year.

I provided a lead charitable contribution towards the five million-dollar initiative to eliminate needless blindness for hundreds of thousands of children across the world.

The initiative is supported by Seva’s Childhood Blindness Prevention Initiative, and allowed the Seva Foundation to build upon 25 years of success restoring eyesight for over two million adults in Asia and Africa.
Since its inception in 1978, the Seva Foundation and its network of program partners has helped to restore sight to more than two million blind adults in India, Nepal, Tibet and Cambodia. Building on this successful model, Seva will use the contribution and the funds raised through the Child Vision Campaign to prevent blindness and restore vision for hundreds of thousands of children over the next several years.

Each year, approximately 500,000 children go blind – almost one every minute. Three quarters of these children live in Asia and Africa, in regions least prepared to provide necessary care and treatment. Many children die within two years of becoming blind. Those who survive live in darkness and in most cases are unable to adequately care for themselves.

Remarkably, 80 percent of blindness in the world is avoidable – either through appropriate community-based prevention programs or cost-effective surgical techniques. Seva Foundation, works in close collaboration with Aravind Eye Hospitals in India, the Lumbini Eye Care Program in Nepal, and other partners to execute the Campaign. Seva is recognized as a world leader in eliminating needless blindness because of its success creating financially sustainable, locally-run programs.

I was proud to offer my fundraising support to Seva and its partners in the hopes that we could have a significant impact on the worldwide devastation of childhood blindness. We have a ways to go but we are on the way there.

You can see me speak a bit more about this issue and my other philanthropic philosophies in a vide here.

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