| Biography | Sir Arthur Pearson, who owned the Evening Standard and founded the Daily Express, established a charity in 1915 which became known as St Dunstan's. Having lost his own sight through glaucoma, he was shocked at society's attitude to blindness. He decided to help those who had lost their vision in the recent First World War by giving them the care and rehabilitation they needed to lead constructive, self-sufficient lives.
Nearly a century later, St Dunstan's has become Blind Veterans UK. We not only care for ex-Service men and women blinded in action, but for veterans who have lost their sight through accident, illness or old age. |