World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2019 is on 10 October 2019.
2019 is the last year of the WHO Global Action Plan and IAPB encourages our members and partners to continue with our rolling theme:
This year, the ‘Call to Action‘ for World Sight Day is:
WSD is co-ordinated by IAPB. The theme, and certain core materials are generated by IAPB. All events are organised independently by members and supporter organisations.