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Approximately 314 million people worldwide are blind or visually impaired. Hereof 45 million people are blind while 269 million are visually handicapped.
80% of blindness is avoidable - through timely treatment and/or precaution.
90% of the blind people lie in developing countries.
90% of all blind children do not have access to education.
80% of all blind adults are unemployed because of inadequate training.
Recovery of eyesight and precautions belong to the most cost-effective interventions in healthcare.
Half of the 45 million blind people suffer from cataract, the major cause of blindness.
Their eyesight can be recovered through an operation that on average takes half an hour and costs only 30 Euro.

According to World Health Organisation (WHO)