World Sight Day is a special annual day of awareness that is celebrated around the world each year in order to focus on blindness and vision impairment.

• This day was created by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and awareness is spread through a large number of different events.
• A large number of organizations around the world have been involved with World Sight Day for many years.
• Some people choose to show their support by planting trees, while other people get involved by submitting a photograph that will be used to create an international photograph montage focusing on the theme of blindness.