Girls, wearing fireworks glasses handed out at a primary school, are pictured at a school in Baarn. The campaign was launched by various opticians, consumer organisations and an eye research foundation. Last year 26 people, mainly children and adolescents, were blinded in the Netherlands by fireworks, or suffered from an eye injury.

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