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Thursday 13 Oct 2016

World Sight Day



World Sight Day is a special annual day of awareness that is celebrated around the world each year in order to focus on blindness and vision impairment.

This day was created by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and awareness is spread through a large number of different events.

A large number of organisations around the world have been involved with World Sight Day for many years.

Some people choose to show their support by planting trees, while other people get involved by submitting a photograph that will be used to create an international photograph montage focusing on the theme of blindness.

Other activities that take place on this day include special fund raising walks to help cover the costs of operations, book readings for the blind and a number of booklets and posters that are created in order to raise awareness of the issue.

Good One Ice,

I had a very good friend who was blind.  He was real smart, taught psychology, and had an academic book published on the psychology of blindness.  He as a young person could see, but was blind most of his life.  He was self sufficient, but the blind are always vulnerable.  He had a nutz ex wife that would push him into a wall when she was angry.  The blind are always susceptible to mistreatment by care givers.  I learned that they take your arm to follow, as  opposed to you taking their hand or arm and leading.  If we watched a movie on TV, I would include commentary on graphic sequences of the film that were cogent to the story.  When we went out to eat, I could tell him what was where on his plate by using a clock reference, as in peas at 3 o'clock, etc.  The blind live and can thrive in "our" world,  but it is different in many ways.


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