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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt;">Event organisers: Jessica MacIsaac, Fares Hatoum, and Abubakr Patel</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt;">Optoms Cycling for Sight is a 10-day long World Sight Day Challenge which will take cyclists from Glasgow to Cardiff between September 13<sup>th</sup> and 23<sup>rd</sup>, linking all UK optometry departments. </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The World Sight Day Challenge is a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">global fundraising campaign coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight and jointly implemented with Vision Aid Overseas in the UK</span>. It is designed to raise funds for projects that provide vision care, local training and infrastructure support for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error – simply the need for an eye exam and a pair of glasses. </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Optoms Cycling for Sight aims to get all optometry students aware of charitable activities for causes relevant to their profession, and involved in a nationwide and hopefully annual event following the success of this initial bike ride. All funds will be donated to Optometry Giving Sight and Vision Aid Overseas. </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Please show your support and donate today!</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span>
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