OAK BROOK, Illinois, USA, September 10, 2009 – Lions celebrate a
milestone this month with the screening of the 10 millionth
child through the Sight for Kids program. A program of Lions
Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Johnson & Johnson
Vision Care, Sight for Kids is saving or restoring sight to
children throughout Asia. The leading cause of blindness in
children and adolescents is uncorrected refractive error. Sight
for Kids screens children for refractive error and other vision
problems, including myopia (nearsightedness), which causes
significant vision loss in more than 15 percent of children
under the age of 15 in many Asian countries. Vision loss can
severely harm a child's development, since learning is often
visually based LCIF and Johnson & Johnson Vision Care
collaborated to develop the Sight for Kids program. Local Lions,
Johnson & Johnson staff, and local medical personnel coordinate
screenings in countries throughout Asia. To date, Johnson &
Johnson has committed $1.55 million to fund th