Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Announces Vision Screening Program Sees 16 Million Children In 10 Years

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Announces Vision Screening Program Sees 16 Million Children In 10 Years PR Newswire BANGKOK, Oct. 11, 2012 - Milestone Honored on World Sight Day, Hundreds More to Receive Vision Screening at Event BANGKOK, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care (JJVC) today announced that more than 16 million children in Asia have received free vision screening through Sight for Kids, a partnership program with the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) now marking its 10th anniversary. In honor of this philanthropic milestone, Sight for Kids has arranged to screen hundreds of students on World Sight Day, October 11 at a school in Bangkok. This event is part of an effort to screen another 1 million kids in six Asia Pacific countries during 2012 alone. Sight for Kids has screened children in China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. It was established in 2002 to reduce visual impairment and disability in Asia through volunteer- directed vision screenings involving ministries of health, school districts, eye care professionals and hospitals along with Lions Clubs International volunteers and JJVC employees. "Uncorrected refractive errors, which are easily corrected, are responsible for nearly half of all global vision impairment," said Wing-Kun Tam, Chairperson of LCIF.