Seeing is Believing

37 million people in the world are visually impaired, and yet a staggering 75% of blindness is avoidable. Seeing is Believing is Standard Chartered's global fund raising campaign aiming to help eradicate avoidable blindness. Key milestones:

Launched in 2003 to celebrate the Bank's 150th anniversary.
One million sight restorations were completed, and a global total of US$6 million was raised by World Sight Day 2006.
By 2010, we aim to raise US$10 million for 10 million people across 20 countries with a focus on prevention and education of blindness in addition to sight restoration.

Seeing is Believing has the ability to change millions of lives across the world. For more information, please visit http://www.seeingisbelieving.org.uk .

Standard Chartered partners with ORBIS International in Hong Kong and has raised over HK$10 million since 2004 for education, training and sight restoration projects in mainland China.