Be their Vision

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If someone asks you to close your eyes for a couple of minutes, You will realize that with the momentary darkness in front of your eyes you will feel quite anxious, nervous and quite uncomfortable. This simply proves how humans depend on the vision or eyesight quite naturally and effortlessly. The eyes are one of the most important and highly developed sensory organs in the human body but it is a fact that humans do not pay enough attention in taking care of this invaluable sensory organ.

Based on this concept the Leo club of University of Colombo introduced the project ‘Be Their Vision’ and this iconic project is being continued for the fifth consecutive time in the Leostic year 2020/21. The main focus of the project is on defeating one of the most common issues in the global context; which is eye impairment among any age group of the society.

The necessary steps of the project will be implemented under three phases; of which the first phase was held on 9th January 2021 through the Zoom meetings platform. This beginning phase of the project ‘Be Their Vision 5.0’ was in the form of an eye health awareness online session on a topic that is relatable for most of us in the current situation; where concepts such as ‘work from home’, virtual classrooms and many online platforms have been popular among the people all around the world as a result of the current Covid-19 pandemic situation. The high dependency on technology and smart devices resulted in an immense increase in screen time which unknowingly causes severe damage to human eye health. Identifying this problem; the team conducted the online session on eye health awareness joining with the guest speaker: Dr. Asela Abeydeera, Community Ophthalmologist & President of the Association of Community Ophthalmologists of Sri Lanka; which helped many people regardless of their age, profession, or any other factor to find solutions to their regarding eye health and precautions to be taken to protect their vision.



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