LUNCH MEETING
Tue, Feb 20th 2024 at 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Venue: HPGC.
Speaker: GWYNETH MILLARD- GLOBAL SIGHT SOLUTIONS.
Fellowship Stewards: LES CLANCY + VIV CLANCY.
The lunch time speaker was Rotarian Gwyneth Millard (RC St Helens) and an ambassador for Global Sight Solutions.
She enlightened club members on the work of Global Sight Solutions, a Rotary Charity that provides:
*Eye hospitals - Training for eye surgeons - Microscopes and laser equipment.
*Eye Buses - Hospital transport - Mobile eye screening camps.
*Cataract surgery - treatment of glaucoma -retinal detachment and diabetic retinopathy.
The current target the charity has set itself is to carry out 180,000 cataract operations per year and build 10 new hospitals by 2025.
By way of a little history:
The charity was founded in the 1990's by Dr Sam Das MBE, former eye surgeon and opthalmic consultant at Guildford's Royal Surrey Hospital. His ambition was to to provide 1 million free cataract operations to patients in the Indian sub ciontinent, Africa and other economically emerging areas who are too poor to afford the cost of treatment themselves.
It is a fact that there are 50 million avoidably blind men, women and children worldwide who cannot afford to have their sight restored and Global Sight Solutions is working to provide services to tackle this issue.
For more information check out their website at www.globalsightsolutions.org
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'What We Do' Main Pages:
In the Rotary year 23/24 we have supported the following organisations.
moreThe following plan was put to our club assembly for working with the community.
moreThe following plan was presented at Club assembly for our support to International projects this Rotary year
moreThis is a new group formed during the last Rotary year. Its remit is to look at how we move the club forward and recruit a more diverse membership
moreEach month Rotary will have a monthly theme and our club will try to get involved in projects that embrace these themes.
moreThe Youth Service Team will be involved in the following initiatives as agreed at our club assembly.
moreThe following plan has been agreed at assembly to involve and support our local community..
moreProviding Rotary Service to International Communities. The following programme has been agreed at club assembly.
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The following proposals were put to club assembly on July 4 by Youth Services chair, Les Clancy.
moreThe Executive Committee has presented its plans for the coming year. The role of the executive is to oversee the service functions of the club.
moreWith the club back to normal following the pandemic years we have been able to support a number of organisations this year.
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