Standard Chartered bank has partnered with SightSavers and Brien Holden Vision Institute (BHVI) to provide free paediatric eye surgeries to children between 0 and 15 years throughout Uganda.
SightSavers and BHVI are the key implementing NGOs for the bank's Seeing is Believing Child Eye Health project. The project is the bank's global initiative to tackle avoidable blindness especially among children. The Standard Chartered group has committed to raising $100m by 2020 for the programme through fundraising and bank investment.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article