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Common Joins See America In The Fight Against Preventable Blindness

Common Joins See America In The Fight Against Preventable Blindness

by The Daily Eye Team March 21 2017, 2:20 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 49 secs

Allergan launched See America as an initiative to further the fight against preventable blindness in the United States and hip-hop artist/actor Common urges Americans to support it and “stand in the way of darkness.” He shares his own experiences with Business Insider, as of to why this initiative is so important to him. “As a kid I had issues with my sight. So I always valued it. When I found out about See America, I just thought it was a great campaign to get involved with. Americans really don’t appreciate their eyesight. It’s not something they wake up every day and appreciate that they can see. That they have this incredible gift. And when I found out about what Allergan was doing, I was down to bring awareness. Because I had issues with my sight growing up, and blindness is an issue… I think 61 million Americans go blind in their lifetime.”

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Vandana Kumar is a Middle School French teacher in New Delhi, India. An educator with over 20 years of experience, she is also a French translator and recruitment consultant. Her poems have been published in various national and international journals and websites like ‘Mad Swirl’, Toronto based ‘Scarlet Leaf Review’, Philadelphia based ‘North of Oxford’, UK based ‘Destiny Poets’, ‘Lothlorien Poetry Journal’, Saint Paul, Minnesota based ‘Grey Sparrow Journal’, California based ‘Piker Press’, ‘Madras Courier’, Glomag etc. She has featured in anthologies like Houston, Texas based – ‘Harbinger Asylum’, US based ‘Kali Project’ and ‘But You Don’t Look sick’ of Indie Blu(e) Publishing etc. She has been part of two projects of the World literature series on Post- modern voices and critical thought. Vandana is a cinephile who inherited her love for the movies from her late father and her affinity for French cinema seems to be a natural corollary of being at the Alliance and Chabrol seems to be her favorite from the French New Wave. You can find her cinema articles on websites and journals like ‘Just-Cinema’, ‘The Daily Eye’, ‘The Free Press Journal’, ‘Boloji.com’ and ‘The Artamour.’


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