Truly Julie: Seeing Is Believing

Julie profiles marathoner Henry Wanyoike, a blind runner who is a world track champion, an Olympic gold medallist, nominee of the prestigious Laureus World Sports Award 2005 and now a world-trotting Goodwill Ambassador for Standard Chartered Bank’s Seeing is Believing Global initiative, which aims to raise funds for one million site restorations.

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This no-nonsense yet charming young man from Central Kenya has demonstrated on numerous tracks around the world that disability is not inability and that life can go on after the most devastating of calamities. He is running the ING New York City Marathon to raise funds and bring awareness to "Seeing Is Believing." The problem of saving sight is a problem we identified as being relatively simple to address.

Medical advances have been made so that treatments are, by international standards, inexpensive and within our grasp. We know we can make an immediate difference in the fight against world blindness if we raise enough money. Every five seconds someone in the world goes blind. 45 million people today are blind. Nine out of ten of them live in the developing world where we do our business.