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In 2002, Carl Zeiss became the first Corporate Sponsor of the "VISION 2020: The Right to Sight" initiative. VISION 2020: The Right to Sight is the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness, coordinated jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), with its international membership of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), professional associations, eye care institutions and corporations.
Social responsibility
The VISION 2020 initiative is an international community project led by the United Nations and supported by governments, companies, individuals and more than 20 NGOs. As a manufacturer of systems and devices for diagnosing and treating ophthalmic disorders, Carl Zeiss Meditec is true to the sense of social responsibility that has always been part of the Carl Zeiss corporate culture, and part of our self-image as expressed in the ZEISS brand. Through donations of equipment plus financial and human resources, we provide wholehearted and practical support to the VISION 2020 goal to eliminate curable and preventable blindness worldwide by the year 2020. By our contributions, Carl Zeiss is helping to make high quality eye treatment available and affordable for millions of people all over the world.
Carl Zeiss supports
Under the VISION 2020 programme, Carl Zeiss will be major supporter for the establishment of five training centres within the next five years. The funds will be used for training staff and equipping the centre. Carl Zeiss is supporting the foundation of the first training centre in Indonesia with a donation of US$ 200,000. The company also donated several systems for diagnosis, treatment and aftercare, including slit lamps, treatment lasers and a surgical microscope. Further training centres will follow in the next 4 years.
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