CDV ONLUS is born
In August CDV Commissione Difesa Vista became a non-profit organization.CDV – Commissione Difesa Vista has always been in the front line for spreading the importance of prevention and vision wellbeing and after many years of activity it has become a “Non-profit Organization of Social Utility” (ONLUS).Its founding members represent the various categories concerned with eyesight and eye health: AIMO - Associazione Italiana Medici Oculisti (Association of Italian Eye Doctors), ANFAO - National Association for Eyewear Manufacturers, Assogruppi Ottica - Assottica Gruppo Contattologia, and Federottica.The social solidarity objectives of the new non-profit organization target social services and socio-medical services and aim at preventing eyesight diseases, disorders and disability - primarily in favor of disadvantaged people due to physical, psychological, economic and family conditions as well as to directly connected activities - also through information campaigns for the community.In particular, the two activities will be developed through the implementation of free vision screenings intended to spread the culture of prevention and raise citizen awareness about the risk that insufficient attention to eye health could lead to permanent disability and disease. In addition, activities will focus on raising awareness about problems connected to permanent vision deficit, disability or disease through the promotion and implementation of eyesight protection campaigns that will increase individual and collective knowledge in children and the more vulnerable, and spread information about the consequences of not taking preventive measures. CDV ONLUS also undertakes to spread the culture of vision wellbeing and provide information about correct practices for maintaining good vision quality; to produce freely distributed information material that will educate people who have less access to sociomedical information about paying more attention to prevention.Lastly, it will collaborate with other public and private entities, including schools of all types and levels, that pursue similar objectives in order to provide support for more vulnerable persons with regard to vision health and preventive measures.President Mr. Vittorio Tabacchi expressed his huge satisfaction: “It is a very important event because at last it formally states its founders’ desire to be active agents in the field of prevention and raising awareness about eyesight protection. We all share the same objective, we all have the health of our eyes and the promotion of vision wellbeing at heart, and this is why we must not lose sight (the expression has never been more appropriate) of the things that unite us”.As in 2014 and 2015, in October CDV will be organizing a Vision Tour on a mega truck equipped with instruments for performing free eyesight checks. It will visit some Italian cities to spread the culture of prevention.For more information, visit www.c-d-v.it(Photo: Vittorio Tabacchi, President of ODV Onlus)
