Is there a need in 2006 for such a Foundation? |
- Yes! The number of children in need is growing annually and even
with the valiant efforts of national governments, non-government organisations
and many others there are still tremendous shortfalls.
- For example, out of an estimated 800,000 visually impaired or blind
children in China only some 20,000 are regularly receiving education
and training opportunities.
- Our long-term vision is to help eliminate avoidable blindness in
Asia's children by supporting the provision of urgently needed eye
care services and resources to address these needs.
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What is meant by “Ask and you shall receive”? |
- A parent with a visually disadvantaged child and no means is invited
to ask for help. E-mail or write to the Sight for Children to lean
more about how we can help.
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How can I make a difference for Asia's
children? |
- Donations of cash, services, support or gifts in kind will make a
tremendous difference in the life a young person.
- All contributions are most generously received whether it is $5 or
$10 million. Pharmaceutical companies can play a key part in helping
with much needed Vitamin A to distribute to pregnant mothers in need.
- Eye specialists and supporting medical personnel are invited to donate
their time to educate doctors, parents, children in simple eye care
and early detection and prevention of blindness.
- Schools, families and libraries are invited to donate used/new children's
books for children's libraries in Asia where children may not even
have a pair of shoes to come to a reading centre. Teachers, themselves,
can donate a week to teach teachers in a village.
- Those discarding glasses are asked to help set up collection centres
for glasses to be sent to those in need. Freight forwarders are invited
to help ship books and eyeglasses.
- Buy an iBear Ambassador for $50, a talking piece for display in your
home or office to tell people you dipped into your pocket to help Sight
for Children help those in need.
- Call upon your staff and colleagues to volunteer their skills, contacts
and time to help those directly delivering the eye care and follow
up literacy initiatives being developed and supported by the Foundation.
- You may not think you can help, but if you close you eyes and imagined
how you could get by without sight for the rest of your life, you will
realise there is something you can and must do.
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What is the One Percent (1%) Solution? |
- Your 1% solution could be 1% of any revenue centre after costs or
1% of profits before tax or 1% of your salary or 1% of your pocket
money; 1% of however you choose to express it.
- Mrs. Beattie and her Sara Beattie Group has committee to pledge 1%
of their corporate training billings to help fund the Sight for Children
Foundation's charitable works.
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What does Sight for Children do? |
- Eliminate avoidable blindness by delivering new or second-hand spectacles
and sponsoring simple surgeries or eye treatments to correct and/or
restore vision;
- Provide an eye health information resources network and training
to support long term medical services (doctors and medical staff) as
well as for educators, parents and the general public;
- Collection of used spectacles and fund raising to help make them
available to those in need and the delivery of donated or purchased
spectacles and supporting optical equipment/low visual aids to those
in need;
- Support Vitamin A distribution for children and Rubella vaccination
for mothers to help prevent childhood blindness;
- Provide English and local language books and supporting education
materials/equipment for those children whose vision has been restored
which they could keep, learn from, and treasure;
- Help voluntary groups, religious organisations, schools and parents
to act as ‘multipliers’ by helping further spread our messages of eye
care and literacy.
- Support special schools play a very important part in teaching young
people through Braille to learn to become useful members of our society.
- Help with the setting up education centres and working with
existing schools will help in many villages and communities where the
visually disadvantaged are neglected for lack of training and education
facilities.
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What are our programmes and partnerships? |
- The Foundation is working to create a society in which children in
need, have access to vision care and treatment as well as education
resources to enhance their lives. This access to health and education
is an inalienable right.
- To ensure effective and measurable effects, we are working with other
corporations, foundations, vision/children development agencies, and
non-governmental organisations who share this mission.
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What has been the Sight for Children Foundation's
development up to present? |
- All expenses during start up (research, project manager part-time
salary, printing of awareness materials, I-Bear production) have been
generously donated by Mrs. Sara Beattie.
- All work related to the administration and operation since May 2005
to present has also generously been contributed by the Sara Beattie
Group and Sara Beattie College.
- A working budget, fund raising plan and service programme is awaiting
the approval of the Sight for Children Foundation Board.
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Who started the Sight for Children Foundation
and why? |
- Mrs. Sara Beattie, a Hong Kong based entrepreneur, has contributed
to the business community since 1964. She pioneered Secretarial Services
for travelling businessmen to Hong Kong and China, setting up business
centres in hotels, and later spearheading the successful employment
agency industry.
- In 1974, she developed a major education centre for young ladies
to enter top companies as Executive Secretaries, again pioneering the
training of many migrating to Canada. Following her success in Corporate
Training in China, more recently, Sara expanded operations to India,
Malaysia and China.
- Sara Beattie College has long supported charities and it is not surprising
that Sara Beattie is now committing the Group's and her personal resources
in Sight for Children.
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