Standard Chartered Bank has launched a new local initiative that aims to help eradicate female blindness in partnership with LRBT. The overall aim of this project is to restore the eyesight of approximately 3,111 women by sponsoring cataract surgeries. These surgeries will be conducted at LRBT hospitals across the country. This programme specifically focuses on women because female population is marginalised and is at a disadvantage when it comes to healthcare spends. This is the first time that the Bank is sponsoring a project directly for LRBT through its Seeing is Believing programme, Standard Chartered’s initiative to help eliminate avoidable blindness. LRBT aims to complete these surgeries by mid year 2015.
