Sight Programs

In 1990, Lions established SightFirst, raising US$143 million to fight the major causes of preventable and reversible blindness. The unprecedented program joins Lions volunteers with blindness prevention experts and organizations and governments. SightFirst has:

• provided more than 7.1 million cataract surgeries
• built or expanded 213 eye hospitals
• supported more than 80 million treatments to prevent river blindness
• improved eye care in 90 countries around the world.

In 2005, Lions launched Campaign SightFirst II with a goal of raising at least US$150 million to continue and expand the extraordinary work of SightFirst.