Prevent Blindness, the nation’s oldest non-profit eye health and safety organization, will be holding its thirteenth annual “Eyes on Capitol Hill” advocacy day tomorrow, Tuesday, July 17, 2018, in Washington, D.C.  Prevent Blindness and its affiliates, dedicated to giving a voice to vision issues, will bring together citizens from across the country to meet with Congress and their staff to speak on vision issues and to request support for public health programs.

Prevent Blindness, founded in New York 110 years ago, began as a public health group dedicated to preventing a blinding eye condition in newborns, then known as “Babies’ Sore Eyes.” Since then, the group has grown nationally and expanded its scope to address vision issues across the age spectrum.