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Message on World Sight Day 2024 – Children Love Your Eyes

Oct 10, 2024

Message on World Sight Day 2024 – Children Love Your Eyes

World Sight Day is celebrated on the second Thursday of October every year. This annual observance, coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), aims to raise awareness about vision impairment and blindness and promote eye and vision health.

This year, under the theme, “Children – Love Your Eyes”, the focus is on children’s vision and eye health. Good vision plays a critical role in a child’s physical, mental and social development. When vision problems go unaddressed and uncorrected, children face delays in their development and learning and, in some cases, permanent loss of vision. Regrettably, due to eye and vision issues that are often treatable, correctable or curable, young people risk missing out on important learning and social opportunities.

Early detection and treatment of eye problems are therefore essential in safeguarding the vision and future of our nation’s children. Parents and guardians play a pivotal role in this regard; ours is the responsibility to ensure that children receive regular eye and vision checks to identify potential eye issues from an early age. In keeping with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation, ours is also the responsibility to limit children’s ‘screen time’ and encourage outdoor activities to help prevent the development of short-sightedness (myopia).

On Sunday, I will be joining the Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association (TTBWA) on their annual walk commemorating World Sight Day. As patron of the TTBWA, I encourage both adults and children to use the opportunity, after Sunday’s walk, for free vision screenings and to visit the health fair in order to obtain valuable information on preserving and protecting eye and vision health.

On this World Sight Day, let us commit to making the eye and vision health of our children a priority. Let us all be advocates for the vision and eye health of current and future generations.

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