Uganda: Standard Chartered to Tackle Blindness

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.

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