This is Vietnamese mother Pham Minh Hiep and her baby Chi. Chi has retinoblastoma, a rare but deadly eye cancer and has just had surgery to remove her right eye, a procedure that has ultimately saved her life. 

Adelaide based filmmaker, Lara Damiani, captured this photo and story while travelling to Vietnam recently with Sight For All Chairman, Dr James Muecke. Lara's moving and powerful story recounts her experience in Vietnam and why our work is so important. 

Read Lara's inspirational story in her own words.....

We were excited to showcase six of our short films at Films For Sight held in Melbourne in early March. The event was generously sponsored by Oliver Hume Property Funds and provided an opportunity for new supporters and old friends to join us in Melbourne and learn more about our sight-saving work in Asia. In addition to viewing the inspirational short films, guests were treated to heart-warming stories by Sight For All Ambassador Steven Trigg and Sight For All Visionary, A/Prof James Elder.

Social photos from the evening can be viewed here.

Coordinating Sight For All’s unique, fun and successful events requires many hours of hard work, lots of dedication and plenty of passion!

Sight For All events are coordinated by an enthusiastic Events Committee, chaired by Mena Muecke. The team of ten are all volunteers who over the years have donated thousands of hours to ensure Sight For All events are distinctive, enjoyable and reach their fundraising target.

Since Sight For All began in 2009, the Events Committee have raised over $485,000 to fund numerous educational projects and enable the purchase of vital ophthalmic equipment in Sight For All’s partner countries in Asia.

We thank our current and past Events Committee members for their huge generosity of time and fantastic creative ideas that ensure Sight For All events are exceptional. Make sure you get your tickets to this years The Very Slow Long Lunch...

The Sight For All team is in need of a couple of laptop computers to be used at events; be taken on overseas trips for studies and projects and be used by our volunteers in the office. If you are thinking of upgrading and would like to give your current laptop a new home, we would love to hear from you! 

If you are interested or could assist, please call our Executive Officer, Judy Bickmore on 08 8222 4937 or email jbickmore@sightforall.org