This third October Summit, we have come up with a series of activities that we believe will address issues, which are key to achieving the goals of VISION 2020 but have not received adequate attention. The reasons we perceive is that a lot of these are labelled as “ground realities” and are considered as unchangeable conditions within which we have to operate. Through these workshops we hope to bring about a paradigm shift in our thought process and challenge these conditions towards finding innovative solutions in favour of our eye care programmes. LAICO is happy to present the following programmes as part of this year’s October Summit: