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World Sight Day (WSD) is an yearly day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to motivation world-wide care on blindness and vision loss. World Sight Day 2017 is on 12 October 2017. It is the furthermost significant promotion and communications incident on the eye health chart and a huge time to engross with the world at large. 

A great number of groups throughout the world have been involved with World Sight Day for several years. Several people select to demonstration their help by planting trees, while other people become involved by presenting a photograph that will be used to make a global photograph mosaic concentrating on the subject of blindness. Some Other goings-on fund raising for treatment.

Almost 285 million people Around the world with low vision and blindness. 90% of blind people are from middle class or low income. Restorations of sight, and blindness prevention tactics are with cost-effective involvements in health care, 19 million children are visually damaged Approximately.

It is planned to spread awareness of the over-all lack of   vision care global. Around the next few years, the amount of blind people in the world is likely to rise from over 45 million people to over 72 million people.