The UWI Fac­ul­ty of Sci­ence and Agri­cul­ture and Fac­ul­ty of Med­ical Sci­ences will cel­e­brate World Sight Day over two days, Oc­to­ber 5 and 6, with three sep­a­rate events sur­round­ing the theme, "See­ing through Learn­ing, Learn­ing through See­ing". The events in­clude a World Sight Day pre­ven­tion of blind­ness work­shop, a World Sight Day pre­ven­tion stu­dent ex­po­si­tion and a World Sight Day pre­ven­tion pub­lic lec­ture. The work­shop, which is an in­vi­ta­tion-on­ly event, will take place on Oc­to­ber 5 at the Mt Hope Fac­ul­ty Board Room from 9 am to 4:30 pm. The event is a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort be­tween the NGOs work­ing in blind­ness pre­ven­tion and The UWI.

The key speak­er at the event will be Dr Fuad Khan, Min­is­ter of Health. Spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests in­clude Dr Juan Car­los Sil­va, Re­gion­al Eye Care Di­rec­tor for PA­HO; Dr Van Lans­ingh, Re­gion­al Di­rec­tor for Vi­sion 2010, PA­HO; and Max Bruss, Vice Pres­i­dent of Op­er­a­tions, VOSH SE (Vol­un­teer Op­tom­e­try Ser­vices to hu­man­i­ty, South East). The stu­dent ex­po­si­tion and pub­lic lec­ture both take place on Oc­to­ber 6 and are open to the pub­lic. The ex­po­si­tion will take place from noon to 3 pm at the Hu­man­i­ties Un­der­croft on the St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, while the pub­lic lec­ture will run from 4:30pm to 7 pm at Am­phithe­atre B on the Mt Hope Cam­pus. The speak­ers at these events will be Dr Juan Car­los Sil­va, Re­gion­al Eye Care Di­rec­tor for PA­HO; Dr Van Lans­ingh, Re­gion­al Di­rec­tor for Vi­sion 2010; PA­HO and Mr Max Bruss, Vice Pres­i­dent of Op­er­a­tions, VOSH SE. At­ten­dees at the ex­po­si­tion will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to do vi­sion screen­ings at the event.