Join us for 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE in Mexico! 🇲🇽 Calling all visionaries in the eye health sector and beyond! Let's come together at 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE to forge a shared understanding and drive the systemic change our world needs. Together, we'll develop collective knowledge, best practices, and innovative approaches to not just discuss, but ELEVATE eye health, INTEGRATE it into broader health systems, and ACTIVATE demand from the ground up.️ 🗓️ Date: 25-27 June 2024 📍 Location: Mexico City, Mexico Secure your spot today at https://brnw.ch/21wG7y3 Early bird tickets will be on sale until 29 February 2024! #2030InSight
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
Non-profit Organizations
London, England 13,844 followers
International alliance working to eliminate avoidable vision loss and improve eye health. #LoveYourEyes ⎮ #2030InSight
About us
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is the coordinating membership organisation leading international efforts in blindness prevention activities IAPB’s mission is to eliminate the main causes of avoidable blindness and visual impairment by bringing together governments and non-governmental agencies to facilitate the planning, development and implementation of sustainable national eye care programmes. IAPB promotes VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, the joint initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO) for the elimination of avoidable blindness by the year 2020.
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http://www.iapb.org
External link for International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1975
- Specialties
- eye health, blindness prevention, disability, vision loss, and Membership
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IAPB, 6068/6071 Aldgate Tower 2, London
Leman Street
London, England E1 8FA, GB
Employees at International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
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Yuddha Dhoj Sapkota
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Jyotishree Nath
Head of Fundraising at International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
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Rizwana Hussaindeen
Academician/ Vision Science Researcher/ Pediatric Optometrist/Life Coach
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Elizabeth Kurian
Chief Executive Officer, Mission for Vision Strategic and Technical Advisory Group - SPECS 2030, World Health Organisation
Updates
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Have you downloaded WHOeyes? A FREE app, launched by the WHO, for the general public to check how well they can see things close up and at a distance. WHOeyes also serves as an education resource delivering valuable insights on eye protection. Download the app today https://brnw.ch/21wLczr. #WHO #EyeCare
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Dive into the economic impact of vision impairment with the Vision Atlas Economics page! Explore insightful data, research, and resources highlighting the crucial link between eye health and economic well-being. Discover how investing in eye health can lead to profound societal benefits. https://brnw.ch/21wLcmG #Economics #VisionAtlas #EyeCare 📸: William Shepard for Deepanjali Chopra
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World Sight Day 2024 is on 10 October 2024, and we’ve got BIG plans! Join our #LoveYourEyes campaign and be a part of working towards a global solution! https://lnkd.in/eNGA4Dz3 #WorldSightDay #LoveYourEyes
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We could not agree more Oli Barrett! It was a pleasure to have you with us in Mexico for 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE! We learnt so much from all of our speakers and delegates.
It's been a few years since I was thrown by a judo fighter. The last time was as a child, on a day my mother still recalls with the words "I was very nervous until you began, and from that day on I never worried about you getting in a fight!". Sport, it seems, can change people. Today, in Mexico, I have been thrown by Eduardo Ávila Sánchez, four-time Paralympic medallist. The judoka and actor is blind, and I'm interviewing him on-stage, at 2030 In Sight LIVE, the annual gathering of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). He throws me because he talks about his childhood. How he was misunderstood. How his disruptive behaviour was misinterpreted. How, with the unfailing support of his mother, and through sport, his life changed. Now I'm listening to Megan Webber who noticed the tell-tale "glow" in photos of her son's eye (indicating, in his case, Coat's Disease) and co-founded Know The Glow, campaigning to eliminate preventable childhood blindness. Joel López Ramos, an indigenous health expert is equally as engaging, and as I push down my emotions from hearing about Eduardo's childhood and Megan's son, he explains what drives his daily work. It is the thought of his own mother, who was saved by a health worker, though not in time to save one of her arms. Today, she sits in the front row, and now she is walking across the stage towards us, smiling, proud of her amazing son. She sits down, briefly, as he shares his love for her, and I am thrown again. Judo's philosophy revolves around two primary principles: Seiryoku-Zenyo (good use of energy) and Jita-Kyoei (mutual welfare and benefit). They are worth bearing in mind... The event, hosted by Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera en México, partnered with The Fred Hollows Foundation, saw ministers and ambassadors (including Kirk Humphrey from Barbados, Walton Webson from Antigua and Barbuda, and Dr Roshan Pokhrel of Nepal), ophthalmologists, optometrists, policy-makers, NGOs, and business people focus on the fact that over 1.1 billion people today are living with sight loss because they do not have access to basic eye care services. Without action this will rise to 1.8 billion by 2050. That's hundreds of millions who are unnecessarily blind or visually impaired from causes that are TREATABLE or PREVENTABLE. Within the solutions must be roles for government, charities, and the private sector, each giving what they can. 💡That said, regardless of the actors, our BEST USE OF ENERGY must be focused on MUTUAL WELFARE AND BENEFIT. The glasses which give a child confidence, boost their grades, increasing their earnings, boosting the economy. The specs which help an employee to see, increase their productivity, hitting the bottom line. This is not "health", this is development. And it needn't be "help" when it can also be hugely enlightened self-interest. 🥋 We can all become black-belts at that. *****
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Thank you Jacqueline Grove and to everyone who joined us in Mexico and online for 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE! It was an incredible 3 days.
Typically you will go to meetings for work and you listen to presentations, take notes and take a few things away, then get back to your daily life. Well, not this meeting! Congratulations to International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) for coordinating such an impactful convention in Mexico City, #2030INSIGHT, with partner APEC Hospital de la Ceguera. Literally, the participants attending the meeting work every day to solve the Global Vision Crisis. The sessions are designed to offer you strategic insights, perspectives and tactics to raise your own game on what you're doing to make a difference. You can't help but come away totally energized to progress the vision sector toward our goal of 40% improvement of coverage for people to be able to see clearly with glasses. I am especially grateful to continue to build relationships with so many amazing people as I've now been focused on global philanthropy for 5 years and to spend such quality time with our 2020 Quest partners RestoringVision and VisionSpring. During this conference I also made some new friends who I believe will be phenomenal partners in the initiatives we are working on. Here's to shaping a future where everyone is able to see clearly and live their best lives! Reade Fahs, Elizabeth Muchoki, K-T Overbey, Jess Blijkers, Amanda Davis, Peter Holland, Sumrana Yasmin Pelin Munis, Ph.D., Kovin Naidoo, Nick Parker, Caroline Casey, Simon Darvill, Cindy Tromans, Operation Eyesight Universal, Stuart Keel, Elizabeth Roden, Bindi Patel, Abigail Steinberg, Ashley Mills
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That is a wrap on 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE. 👏 Thank you to the hundreds of attendees for your energy and passion over an incredible two days. And to our speakers, THANK YOU! For sharing your insights and pushing the conversation forward. And finally, a massive thank you to our amazing event partners. We hope to see you all next year. #2030InSight
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Up next at 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE.... How do we know what's working and where the gaps are? Join us for “Mapping progress on 2030 IN SIGHT” where we will present and discuss the 2030 In Sight progress markers. Learn from global, regional, and national examples and commit to tracking progress. Catch the live stream here: https://lnkd.in/eDYGNsKi #2030InSight
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2030 IN SIGHT LIVE afternoon sessions are set to begin! Next up “Guaranteeing Quality Cataract Surgical Outcomes” Join the livestream via our event app and learn about the problem, and the steps IAPB members are taking to address the problem – with real life examples from our expert panellists of the challenges and the solutions. https://lnkd.in/eDYGNsKi #2030InSight
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Translating Global Advocacy” is happening now. Join Ambassador Walton Webson, Ryan Toews and more in this session where delegates will build their knowledge and understanding of global policies and approaches, to better inform national advocacy and policy strategies, and hold governments accountable to their commitments. Catch the live stream here: https://lnkd.in/eDYGNsKi #2030InSight
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