Happy Friendship Day!
06Aug11
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have
chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent
with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can
tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to
Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)
chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent
with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can
tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to
Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY! TO ALL MY BUDDIES!
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VISION 2020 – World Sight Day 2009
- World Sight Day 2009
- The theme of World Sight Day 2009 (WSD09) is: Gender and Eye Health – equal access to care
- Global Key Messages for WSD09 Nearly two-thirds of blind people worldwide are women & girls In many places, men have twice the access to eye care as women Equal access to eye care could substantially reduce blindness in poor countries* Simple and effective strategies can and do successfully address this inequity within VISION 2020: The Right to Sight
- Don’t forget: 80% of blindness is avoidable – either treatable, curable or preventable 90% of blind people live in low-income countries Cataract is the leading cause of blindness – yet it is curable by a simple, cost-effective operation 8 million people worldwide are blind due to uncorrected refractive errors. A simple sight test and glasses could restore sight to most of these people
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Up to 80% of the world’s blindess is avoidable.
Avoidable blindness is defined as blindness which could be either treated or prevented by known, cost-effective means. Although there are many other causes of vision impairment, VISION 2020 seeks to address the main causes of avoidable blindness, in order to have the greatest possible impact on vision loss worldwide.
The target disease areas for VISION 2020 are:
Cataract
Trachoma
Onchocerciasis
Childhood Blindness
Refractive Error
Low Vision
Glaucoma
Diabetic Retinopathy
Age Related Macular Degeneration
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Remembering John Lennon….
10Oct09
Yesterday was John Lennon’s Anniversary.Belated wishes John.You live through your music.Enjoy his song ‘Imagine’…
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