World Sight Day 2013 has been the catalyst for meetings in the Houses of Parliament, celebrity support for optics and the release of new research findings.
BBC presenter Fiona Bruce (pictured above with VAO founding chairman Brian Ellis) made a speech during a VIP reception organised by the charity at the House of Commons to mark the October 10 campaign. She is the honorary vice-president of Vision Aid Overseas
‘As a spectacle wearer myself, I know only too well how important it is to eliminate global visual impairment,’ Bruce said.
VAO also announced at the event that it had been awarded a Global Poverty Action Fund Impact Widow Grant worth £313,076 from the Department for International Development.
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