In an effort to eliminate avoidable blindness, Standard Chartered Bank has partnered with The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust to offer eye care services in Uganda and four other African countries.
Launching the partnership, the Chief Executive Officer Standard Bank Herman Kasekende said the bank has donated 20 million dollars to the Queen Elizabeth’s Trust that will ensure 5 million Ugandans access eye care services while 17 million people will be reached across four other African Countries.
Kasekende says that the five year 20 million Project to fight trachoma is expected to increase the Bank’s momentum behind vision 2020 geared at eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020.
Receiving the donation, the British High Commissioner to Uganda Alison Blackburne said that the Trust established to mark her Majesty the Queen’s 60 year contribution to commonwealth countries will help in training eye specialists, provision of equipment and create awareness on how to avoid the infectious trachoma.