On World Sight Day 2010, The Fred Hollows Foundation in Vietnam is screening around 33,000 school students for refractive error in Cu Chi and Hoc Mon districts, in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Foundation is also conducting eye examinations and providing medicine for treatment to more than 3,000 people from 11 project provinces.

In addition, The Foundation is using the day to take messages to the public that ‘everyone has a right to sight’. In most developing countries, one of the greatest challenges facing those trying to develop eye health programs is communicating the message that blindness, in most cases, is avoidable or preventable.  

The Foundation is hanging hundreds of banners with blindness prevention messages in public places. We are also conducting public meetings and broadcasting ‘right to sight’ messages through radio and television.