ROI Contents & links

Contents & links

Launched internationally in late Summer of 2006, the ROI is a global humanitarian initiative designed to help Clubs save sight, life & the livelihood of millions in developing countries, simply.

To assist review you may find the following toolkit and information helpful.
Just click on any of the following underlined links:

Overview What’s this about, who benefits, how to donate & more

Download Video presentations or Fact sheets, leaflets & other material,

Order [donation] form For use by email or post or use Paypal Gift aid form

Links to relevant eye care charities & interests

Press / web releases, and comment on the Initiative and /or product

Donor listing - Acknowledges donation by Clubs / individuals by District

Recipients - by Country and distributing Agency

Insert for your Club web site - Word format for customisation (496kb) or PDF 9kb

Introductory email - A simple way for you to introduce ROI to contacts overseas / elsewhere

Need a speaker? Further details

Sponsors - An opportunity to gain UK and International recognition

Extract from former UK Prime Minister, Sir John Major’s [Global Ambassador, VISION 2020: THE RIGHT TO SIGHT] address to the World Health Assembly May 2006

"Blindness prevents children from attending school and adults from joining the workforce. It traps them in a cycle of poverty and discrimination. And yet, 75% of blindness is avoidable: a pernicious evil that impacts on the individual, the family, the community and the wider economy.

The economic facts speak for themselves: if the WHO's member states take the recommended actions and intervene to prevent or cure the blindness of 100 million people, a conservative estimate of the savings, in lost productivity alone, is US $223 billion”