Standard Chartered and Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital (IIEI&H) recently celebrated 20 years a partnership dedicated to fighting avoidable blindness and visual impairment in Bangladesh.
Through initiatives that worked towards restoring sight, testing, and preventing eye disease and raising awareness about eye health, Standard Chartered has touched millions of lives both across Bangladesh and the world.
Standard Chartered Bangladesh began its first eye-health intervention with Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital in 2003.
This seminal intervention sparked the Bank’s previous global flagship community engagement program “Seeing is Believing,” which eventually went on to raise USD 104.2 million and reached 250 million people across 38 countries.
Despite “Seeing is Believing” achieving its published targets and winding up in 2020, Standard Chartered Bangladesh has continued to partner with IIEI&H for various health-related community engagement programmes.
Currently, through the latest partnership the Bank and IIEI&H are working together to deliver the gift of sight by setting up six comprehensive Eye Health Camps for adult beneficiaries and six Student Sight Testing Programmes (SSTP) for school-going children.
