OUR STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
"To provide an integrated, sustainable, equitable and quality eye health service to all Ghanaians, it is necessary to mobilize the needed resources, human, material and financial to treat eye diseases, eliminate avoidable blindness and provide rehabilitation for the blind," it said, is thus as a cause of this very important occurrence that our attention has been drawn, to set up a very professionally quipped team at Special Sight Foundation to carry out this very fulfilling outreach.
The Outreach aside being Special Sight Foundation way of fulfilling its patriotically social required duties also do go a long way in creating the much needed awareness for prevention of, if not all, most eye oriented problems and most importantly delivery of eye care service to the very door step of our somehow lacking rural dwelling populace.
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WE BELIEVE IN YOUR INVOLVEMENT
Are you interested in children? Why not sponsor a community screening? Support a Screening in a pro-researched defined location of need. If you cannot be there in person we will send you a Screening Report with photos and case studies of all the cataract patients that we identify at the screening. This Screening Report is designed for you to use as a publicity tool to make people aware of your sponsorship. It can be sent to your clients and supporters. Your company name and banners will be displayed at the screening. You will receive an official Special Sight Foundation certificate of support. You will be mentioned in our various active social media platforms, in all our proceeding publications and in any other public forum granted.
BRIEF ON EYE CARE IN GHANA
Available statistics at the Ghana Eye Foundation (GEF) indicates that 200,000 Ghanaians are completely blind while 600,000 others are visually impaired from causes, 75 per cent of which were avoidable.
This was contained in a GEF concept paper released at the official launch of GEF and the swearing in ceremony of its Board of Trustees in Accra.
The GEF Concept paper noted that cataract, glaucoma, trachoma, childhood blindness, refractive errors and low visions as well as diabetes and sickle cell retinopathy accounted for the visual challenge facing the country."Cataract tops the causes of blindness with 100,000, glaucoma, 30,000, trachoma, 6,000, childhood blindness, 8,000, refractive errors and low vision, 10,000 diabetes and sickle cell retinopathy, 6,000," it said. It noted that every year 20,000 people became blind in both eyes from cataract and an additional 4,000 people becoming blind in one eye due to the same causes, saying it occurred mostly in persons over age 65 years.
The paper noted that cataract was curable by optical operation and the other causes of blindness and visual problems were all preventable by early detection and treatment but due to the non- availability of resources in the form of equipment, supplies, consumables and human capacity they continued to plague victims and their families. It noted for instance that over 70 per cent of childhood blindness was preventable through good nutrition and accessibility to potable water but due to poverty many children suffered unduly.
"In Ghana, eye health financing remains a big problem. There is never sufficient funding for equipment, consumables, supplies and research and as a result eye care centers usually run out of consumables and supplies and the human capacity are forced to travel out due to frustration," it said. The paper observed that only 45 per cent of eye health service delivery centers in the country had equipment for diometry to select the exact intra-ocular lens power, 75 per cent of centers did not have visual field assessment equipment and 85 per cent of optometrists practice in the urban areas to the detriment of the rural population. It noted that cataract operation was for instance covered in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) but much more funding was needed to address the challenge of sight loss holistically.
A FRUITFUL PARTNERSHIP
By sponsoring this Outreach with a donation, you enable us to continue to provide quality eye care, and community programs that support our mission. In return, you will be prominently promoted throughout the Outreach and other auxiliary ventures as an official sponsor.
There are two ways you can sponsor an event or program:
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Provide a cash donation to underwrite the expenses of our shows and events.
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Provide in-kind product, such as food, supplies, costumes, sound equipment, or media time, or in-kind service, such as, graphic designers, or photographers. Whatever your business does, we probably have a program or event that could use it.
As a corporate partner, we will match you up with the timelines and schedules that provides the best demographic base for meeting your goals and objectives.
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PROMOTIONAL VISIBILITY
What we at Special Sight Foundation hope to offer our beloved and committed sponsoring partners include but not limited to ;
Logo signage in the entrance of the Outreach space for all screening events. Reserved full page ad space in all proceeding publishing materials to follow.
Logo placement on our website for the duration of the season.
Logo placement on all print marketing for all future screening events.
Logo placement on monthly emailed newsletter.
Sponsor publicly thanked in the pre-show announcement of each event within a stipulated period Framed and autographed show posters and cast photos.
Recognition in email blasts and e-newsletters. Recognition in print media.
Recognition on brochures and posters.
Advertise as a sponsor of Special Sight Foundation .
SPECIAL NOTES FOR SPONSORS:
Special Sight Optical Services will customize all sponsorships to specifically meet your company’s marketing objectives. If you desire a different level of contribution, such as an in- kind sponsorship, please contact us about unique underwriting opportunities.
Thank you.