Child Blindness
Approximately 1.4 million children in the world are blind, and 75 percent of them live in developing countries. Nearly 17 million children with low vision or blurred eye sight lack visual aids, services, or eyeglasses to help them function. Through the Child Blindness Program, USAID is preventing blindness and restoring vision to thousands of people, especially vulnerable children in the poorest communities of the world. The program originated in 1991 through an earmark by the U.S. Congress to prevent and treat child blindness.
