Poverty and inequality are harming the world’s children and it’s time to act November 11, 2022 | City Talk We must do all we can to alleviate the suffering of children during times of crisis to ensure healthy and happy future generations are fostered. A 2020 study on the falling living standards during the Covid-19 pandemic published by Science Advances took evidence from over 30,000 respondents across nine countries, one being Nepal that the [...]
How Donor-Advised Funds provide flexible solutions November 10, 2022 | City Talk Following the introductory interview with Prism the Gift Fund’s Founder, CEO, Anna Josse, lastweek, Anna gives CityAM a closer look at how Donor Advised Funds provide flexible solutions forprivate clients and their philanthropic goals. Philanthropy is inherently personal; there are as many reasons for giving as there are people whogive. At Prism the Gift Fund [...]
New documentary released on childhood cataracts and extreme poverty November 7, 2022 | City Talk The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has released a brand new documentary short that showcases how childhood cataracts can exacerbate a families poverty. The documentary follows a family of six in the rural Jajakot region of Nepal. Three of the four children suffer have lived with needless cataract blindness for years and the eldest of [...]
Meet the CEO of one of the leading Donor Advised Funds in the UK November 3, 2022 | City Talk Anna Josse, CEO & Founder of Prism the Gift Fund (Prism), talks to CityAM on Donor Advised Funds –the fastest-growing philanthropy vehicle in the UK. Anna, what is your background? I was always active as a leader in youth movements in my teens, and at university publicly foughtmany political battles in the union. That background [...]
How cutting-edge technology is helping curb the rise in avoidable blindness worldwide November 1, 2022 | City Talk Globally 1.1 billion people live with vision loss and blindness and a shocking 90% of it is avoidable. Sadly, 9 out of 10 of these people live in low-to-middle-income countries with little or no access to eye health care. Orbis, an international sight-loss charity, works to fight avoidable blindness in these regions through hospital-based programmes [...]
Blind people amongst those worst affected by cost of living crisis October 28, 2022 | City Talk The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) conducted a survey recently, asking 125 blind and visually impaired individuals to explain how the cost of living crisis was affecting them. The cost of living crisis has become a focal point for the government and a point of concern for the public in recent months. Soaring [...]
Blindness in Ghana October 27, 2022 | City Talk Ghana, like many nations, has a clear divide between those who are wealthy and those who live in poverty. Many Ghanaians live in conditions where they do not have access to healthcare or the resources to assist them out of the cycle of poverty. The lack of accessibility to healthcare can often push those suffering [...]
Six facts you may not know about gender and blindness October 24, 2022 | City Talk Women make up 55% of the world’s visually impaired, that is around 609 million women. Women are 12% more likely to develop some form of visual impairment and have 8% higher chances of becoming entirely blind compared to men. As women’s life expectancies are longer, they are more likely to develop age-related eye problems such [...]
Curing blindness in some of the most isolated regions of Nepal October 21, 2022 | City Talk In March 2022, the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation staged one of the biggest mountainous area cataract microsurgical camps ever organized in Nepal. It was here that 333 patients returned home with full vision after their blindness was cured. Whilst this was ongoing, another team working with the foundation were busy screening patients in Nepal’s [...]
Why raising awareness in remote areas saves sight October 18, 2022 | City Talk Andrew Wardle – Programmes Team at Orbis UK I was wearing my Orbis cap and shirt when Lemlem stopped me on the stairs of my hotel and asked if I knew what was wrong with her milky white eye. Immediately, I could see she had a cataract, one that had been developing for a long time. [...]