James Chen

Clearly is a global campaign, which brings together some of the most creative and innovative minds in the world to solve the challenge of helping the world to see. There are 2.5 billion people in the developing world have poor vision and no means of improving it. 80% of those 2.5 billion could be corrected with a pair of glasses. Despite human advances on so many levels, we have forgotten one of the most basic needs of all - sight. In the digital era, the world has the technology and insight to crack this challenge and transform access to sight in the developing world. The Clearly campaign will bring together some of the most creative thinkers in the world and the most innovative technology to take on the challenge of rethinking the approach to world vision. Let's help the world see clearly by 2035.

Two and a half billion people globally lack access to the eye care they need. Vision for a Nation is an award-winning UK charity working to change this, in order to unlock economic growth and the human potential of the world’s poorest. Vision for a Nation’s work has transformed eye care in Rwanda. In 2012, only 15% of the population had access to local eye care services. Fast forward to today and every single person in Rwanda can benefit from local, affordable vision correction and treatment. Working in partnership with the Ministry of Health, 2,700 nurses were trained and over 2.5 million Rwandans received a vision screening either at their local health centre or as part of an outreach programme that reached all 15,000 villages nationwide. Vision for a Nation is now taking its pioneering model to other countries, starting with Ghana. In 2018 an amibitous multi-year project was launched with the Ghana Health Service to strengthen its national eye care services on a long-term and sustainable basis.

Named after the renowned artist Feng Zikai, the Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award celebrates the work of authors and illustrators to encourage increased investment and support for creative talent. By highlighting the profound importance of picture books and the vital role they play in early reading, the Award hopes to reinforce their value to publishers and to inspire authors and illustrators to create them. The Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award is given on a biannual basis, with the first event held in Hong Kong in 2009.

Founded in 2006, Bring Me a Book Hong Kong is an affiliate of the award-winning literacy nonprofit Bring Me a Book Foundation. Bring Me a Book Hong Kong supplies age-appropriate children’s books in Chinese and English to communities through nurseries, community centers, health clinics and kindergartens. The programme operates a lending library giving families access to high quality reading materials and audio recordings, and offers parents and childcare providers training to empower them to read to children in a way that builds interest, motivation and confidence. This prepares children for future educational, emotional and social success. The organisation aspires to a future where every child in Hong Kong is read to, strengthening family and community bonds and creating a lasting love of learning.

Adlens are pushing new technologies in vision, they are perfecting the interfaces between the real and virtual worlds, eyes and the brain. • Born out of Oxford University • No.1 authority on the design & application of adaptive focus lens technologies • Patented non-round fluid filled lenses • Partnered with major client developing lenses for AR & VR • World leader in Alvarez lenses • Profitable & re-investing in development

The Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation is a Hong Kong based charity foundation with a strategic focus on early childhood literacy, library development and education enhancement. We support organizations on innovative, cost effective and high impact projects in Mainland China and Hong Kong.