Blindness in Children

China View reports that the NGO Sight Saver cites child blindness as a major impediment to development. In Uganda, they report that 0.1% of children are blind, figuring to almost 25,000 children total. To this, Sight Saver provides resources to schools in meeting the needs of these children.

The wording is ambiguous, but they report that "over 1.4 million children are blind yearly" (do they mean "blinded" or that the number of blind children is fairly consistent?), and that 3/4 of blind children live in the poorest regions of Africa and Asia.