As part of Standard Chartered's global Seeing Is Believing program to help 10 million people with visual impairments by 2010, Standard Chartered Nepal signed an agreement with Tilganga Eye Centre (TEC) on 12 October, World Sight Day. TEC will conduct screening camps between October 2006 and July 2007 in Kathmandu and neighbouring districts, and the bank will sponsor cataract surgeries for 500 patients with funds raised from walkathons.