When Megan Webber, Co-Founder of KnowTheGlow, and Helene Dameris, Director of Global Outreach, met with Carolyn Newman, they were deeply moved by the story of ACE Global. Carolyn, the organization’s Executive Director, has devoted more than 40 years to nonprofit work, and her passion for …
Introducing Dr. Diego Ossandón
When KnowTheGlow (KTG) Co-founder Megan Webber and Director of Global Outreach Helene Dameris sat down virtually with Dr. Diego Ossandón, they were meeting someone who has made it his life’s work to protect the vision and lives of children across Chile. Dr. Ossandón is a …
Introducing Dr. Arun Singh
Last summer at the EURbG Conference in Athens, Greece, Helene Dameris, Director of Global Outreach for KnowTheGlow, had the opportunity to hear Dr. Arun Singh, Director of the Department of Ophthalmic Oncology at Cole Eye Institute of the Cleveland Clinic present. Known globally for his …
Meet Carla Soto Vargas, Know the Glow Chile Ambassador
Carla recently joined KTG, after being contacted in June 2023 by one of KTG’s ambassadors after hearing her story at an international congress evidencing childhood cancer survivorship. Carla is an only child and lives with her parents in a town in Chile located between the …
Ambassadors
Our Vision We aim to globally eliminate preventable early childhood blindness. Our Vision: prevent children from losing theirs. Our Mission We raise public awareness of the Glow (leukocoria) and the more than twenty different glow-related eye diseases and drive action to prevent childhood blindness. Our …
Olivia’s Glow Story
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Derlis says he vividly remembers the first time he noticed the Glow in his daughter Olivia’s left eye. It was November of 2019 and Olivia was just two years old. Derlis was playing indoors with Olivia when the light hit her eye as …