A BLINDFOLDED radio presenter was led around Blackburn Mall shopping centre to raise awareness of World Sight Day.
Simon Brierley, station manager of 107 The Bee, was challenged to buy several everyday items to show what life as a visually impaired person is like.
Each year hundreds of Lions clubs around the world hold vision screenings, community education programmes, eyeglass collections and other special projects to mark Lions World Sight Day.
Lions World Sight Day was created in 1998 to spotlight the importance of eradicating preventable blindness and improving sight.
An increasing number of Lions clubs are using this occasion to collect eyeglasses, conduct vision and diabetes screenings and plan educational programmes to inform their communities about the importance of sight and diseases such as diabetes that can impact sight.
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