Who We Help

Standard Chartered’s “Seeing Is Believing”

Seeing is Believing is a global initiative to help tackle avoidable blindness. SiB is a partnership between Standard Chartered Bank and the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). IAPB is the leading umbrella organization for NGOs working in the field of eye care. Together with the World Health Organization, it launched the ‘Vision 2020 – The Right to Sight’, the global campaign to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020.

To date, Seeing is Believing has raised more than 17 million dollars for blindness initiatives and plans to invest an additional 20 million by 2012. Seeing is Believing is the single largest contributor to the development of Vision 2020 programs through IAPB.

Seeing is Believing has enjoyed great success since its inception in 2003. It was launched to help celebrate the Bank’s 150th anniversary. That year, it exceeded its target to raise enough money for 28,000 sight restorations by double, raising enough money for 56,000 sight restorations. Since then, Seeing is Believing has grown at an astonishing rate. By World Sight Day of 2007, it had contributed to the restoration of 1 million sights. By 2010, SiB will have reached 10 million people through a variety of initiatives to both prevent and cure blindness. SiB expanded to deal with prevention as well as cure as this is the only sustainable way to try and tackle the increasing numbers of avoidably blind.

Visit Team

Back to list of Who We Help »

Where We Go

Explore where we're going or see who we're helping.

Partnerships

See Change would not be possible without the generous support and creativity of the following:

Partnership Name

Idea City

An advertising company based in Austin, Texas, Idea City provides creative direction and production assistance.

Partnership Name

Tequila Mockingbird

Original score and music supervision provided by Tequila Mockingbird.

Partnership Name

nGen Works

Web design & development: by focusing on people more than technology, nGen Works gets to the heart of what users want from your website.

Partnership Name

501 Post

This is our third year of collaboration with 501 Post, a post-production house in Austin, Texas.

Partnership Name

Clinton Global Initiative

In 2006 we committed to documenting Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment sites; each of our 2008 See Change projects focuses on a CGI commitment, and all six partnerships came to fruition with the help of CGI.

Partnership Name

Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation

This website was made possible by the Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation, founded by Sanam and her husband, Shahid Quraishi - long-time supporters who we first met through the Clinton Global Initiative.