Join Our #SelfiesSaveSight Campaign! Share your (or your child’s) eye-selfie, a self-taken photo of your eye, with hashtag #KnowTheGlow and text GLOW to 80077 to donate $5 to join our #SelfiesSaveSight campaign. Your donation in combination with your eye-selfie will help Know The Glow® save …
Press Release: Collaboration Brings Vision Awareness to Spanish Community
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Collaboration Brings Awareness of Childhood Blindness Prevention To Spanish Communities Los Angeles, Calif., (July 8, 2016)—Two organizations committed to ending childhood blindness and other eye diseases—Know The Glow® and Retinoblastoma International—have teamed up to boost awareness within LA’s Spanish-speaking communities Know The …
Know The Glow® Branded Apparel is Here!
The. Wait. Is. Over. We have received your questions about where to purchase Know The Glow® apparel and accessories, and we are excited to announce the launch of our new branded merchandise! Know The Glow has made a Zazzle® store to bring our “Glow” families …
Know The Glow® Coloring Page
Grab Some Crayons! Know The Glow® is excited to introduce our first coloring page! Not only is it a fun activity for kids, but it’s a great learning tool as well. Parents can use this coloring page as both a boredom-buster and a way to …
Where in the World is Know The Glow?
Explore Know The Glow’s Global Outreach Efforts Know The Glow® has been working to spread awareness for Leukocoria, or glowing eyes, for years, and now our message has spread around the world. We want to show you where and how Know the Glow is making …
Raising “Glow” Awareness in Everyday Life
How do you raise awareness for the causes close to your heart? For Natalie Galarza, mother and public health nurse, her son’s Coats’ Disease diagnosis sent her on a mission to educate others known as #mommaonamission. Galarza’s son was diagnosed in July after visiting a …
Leukocoria— Detecting “The Glow”
Knowing “The Glow” is an essential step to preventing childhood blindness, but learning how to detect “The Glow” is just as important. “The Glow,” otherwise known as Leukocoria, is an abnormal red eye reflex that appears as a white or golden “Glow” in the pupil. …
2015 Vision Center Report from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
The Vision Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) featured its partnership with Know The Glow in the 2015 Vision Center Report. CHLA continues to play a large roll in supporting Know The Glow’s global awareness campaign to prevent childhood blindness and works to treat …
Kitchen Daddy—Cooking with a Cause
It was Christmas 2013. Huw and Lou Mainwaring were showing off their 5-month-old boy, Maxen, to Lou’s family in New Zealand when they discovered a “Glow” in both of Maxen’s eyes. Huw, looked online for “white eye,” “cats eyes” and the images that came up seemed …
Coat’s Monkeys
Cozy Care for Children Battling Coats’ Disease Karen Franklin was diagnosed with Coats’ Disease at 10 years old and, as many others before social media, grew up without knowing anyone else with Coats’. Once she joined Facebook®, she sought out Coats’ groups and read many …