The Lions Club of St Barth organized a night of bingo on Saturday, March 10 on the quay in Gustavia to benefit its international campaign SightFirst II. The goal of SightFirst II is to raise $150 million by June 2008 to eliminate avoidable and reversible blindness. Due to the success of SightFirst I, a similar campaign launched in 1990, close to 100 million people received improved eye care, blindness was prevented in almost 24 million people, 250 eye-care centers were created worldwide, and more than 68,000 people received training focusing on care of the eyes. Despite this impressive accomplishment, the World Health Organization estimates that the number of people affected by blindness could increase from 37 million to 74 million by 2020. The St Barth's Lions Club exceeded their goal of $5000 Saturday night when they collected $8963 from all those bingo fanatics!