Points to Ponder and How You Can Help
- Every seven minutes someone in America will become blind or visually impaired. (Source: Common Senses, Inc. – Blind Awareness)
- Currently, more than 1 million Americans are blind and another 2.4 million suffer some vision impairment. (Source: National Eye Institute)
- 80 million Americans suffer from potentially blinding eye diseases. (Source: Research to Prevent Blindness)
- Disturbingly, the number of Americans with age-related eye disease and the vision impairment that results is expected to double over the next three decades. (Source: Prevent Blindness America)
People do not go blind by the millions, they go blind one by one.
Are you or someone you love at risk?