Email Update: World Sight Day 2009

Dear [FIRST NAME],

Gender and Eye Health

The theme of this year's World Sight Day is 'Gender and Eye Health'. Our work in Liberia brought vision correction to hundreds of women, as well as providing dispensing training to many who are now able to dispense glasses. Self-adjustable glasses, distributed through local organizations, bring vision to women who may not be able to access eyecare otherwise, and allow them the opportunity to dispense eyeglasses themselves, with only basic training required to enable them to bring the gift of sight to their own communities.

Today is World Sight Day 2009, and here at Global Vision 2020 and the Centre for Vision in the Developing World we would like to thank you for supporting our work to bring vision correction to over one billion people worldwide who lack access to it.

Global Vision 2020 and the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, working in partnership, are pioneering our new approach of using self-adjustable glasses to allow those without access to eyecare to correct their own vision. We believe that this approach is the best way of effectively and quickly bringing glasses to hundreds of millions of people who might otherwise lack them.

We are developing exciting new projects with local organizations in countries around the world, including Haiti, Tanzania, Bolivia and many others. This World Sight Day, we're asking you to support us to get these new projects off the ground and distributing glasses to those who need them.

There are a number of ways to support us:

Donate to Global Vision 2020 (or the Centre for Vision in the Developing World)
Buy our new Global Vision 2020 merchandise
Give to Global Vision 2020 via Facebook Causes
Spread the word to your family and friends about our work and our goals - why not become a fan on Facebook of GV2020 or the Centre?
Set up a vision outreach program in the developing world

We'll be letting you know about new projects as they're launched. To help us support these projects and the necessary research into making sure that our work is effective, we depend on your donations.

Find out more about our work by visiting our websites at http://www.gv2020.org and http://www.vdw.ox.ac.uk/, and keep up to date with the Global Vision 2020 Blog at http://www.gv2020.org/blog/.

Thank you for supporting our work, and we hope to bring you more updates on what we're doing in the near future.

Global Vision 2020 and the Centre for Vision in the Developing World