Australian Lions welcome Past International President J.Frank Moore III

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Past International President Moore, Vice chairperson and international coordinator of Campaign SightFirst is a great friend of Australian Lions. He is here to chair a number of important forums to further develop Australian Lions response to Campaign Sightfirst II. Through Campaign Sightfirst II, Lions Clubs International will raise more than US$150 million to combat preventable blindness.

Since its inception in 1990, Lions Sighfirst Programs have:

• Awarded US$211 million for 896 projects in 90 countries
• Prevented serious vision loss for 20 million
• Provided 80.5 million treatments for river blindness
• Restored sight to 7.3 million with cataract
• Improved eye-care services for hundreds of millions
• Built or expanded 300 eye hospitals, clinics and wards Upgraded 337 eye centres with equipment
• Trained 345,000 ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, other professional eye-care workers and village health workers
• Provided management training for 115 facilities
• Launched world's first-ever initiative to combat childhood blindness in partnership with the World Health Organization. Thirty pediatric eye-care centers have been established and have strengthened or improved vision care for more than 71 million children.

For more information go to http://www.lions-csfii.org

Rob Oerlemans
Executive Officer
Lions Australia