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Giving Sight Around the World
Thanks to the support from the global optometry profession and industry, Optometry Giving Sight has disbursed almost US$3 million to an ever increasing number of sustainable vision care projects throughout the world…> more
Optometry Giving Sight Launches in Singapore
Optometry Giving Sight launched in Singapore on 5th September 2009. Respected optometrist, Stan Isaacs, is spearheading Optometry Giving Sight in Singapore. “Optometry Giving Sight offers an unprecedented opportunity for members of the optometric community, including eye care ... > more
New Era in Vision Care for Sri Lanka
In April this year, four newly-trained Vision Technicians returned from a year’s training in India to their homes in Sri Lanka to begin work in newly-created Vision Centres.This is an important step towards the goal of Optometry Giving Sight – the elimination of uncorrected refractive error .... > more
New Global CEO for Optometry Giving Sight
After 5 years as both Executive Chair and CEO of global fundraising organization, Optometry Giving Sight, Professor Brien Holden has stepped down as CEO and the Board has appointed Clive Miller. Mr Miller has been with the organization for three years, initially as .... > more
670 Million People Need Eye Exams and Glasses
The release of the paper titled Global Vision Impairment Due to Uncorrected Presbyopia[1] in the Archives of Ophthalmology in December 2008 has reinforced the need for trained local people to provide vision care services to people in the developing world. > more
Transforming Lives in Mozambique
Geoff Hurren, Queensland Territory Manager for CIBA VISION Australia, spent two weeks in Mozambique in late February, volunteering as an optical dispenser and photographer for Lúrio University’s ‘Campaign for Vision’. The visit was sponsored by CIBA VISION… > more
New School to Train 130 New Optical Staff
Funds provided by Optometry Giving Sight will ensure that 100 new Optometric Technicians (OTs) and 30 new Optometrists will be trained over the next 7 years to provide vision services to people in some of the most disadvantaged areas of Southern Africa, including Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. > more
"Massification" - A New Approach for Southern Africa
Optometry Giving Sight has been invited to support the implementation of a new strategy
for ensuring that people in the Southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi,
Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe receive access to affordable and sustainable > more
MOU extends project funding to Latin America
Optometry’s role in global efforts to eliminate refractive error blindness and low vision have taken a giant leap forward with the announcement that Optometry Giving Sight and VOSH International have formed a cooperative partnership. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) > more
An Integrated Approach To Eye Care
One thing that makes Optometry Giving Sight unique is that it is purely a fundraising organization. Another is that we only raise funds from within the optometric industry. We distribute 85% of all funds raised in the name of Optometry to sustainable projects, which > more
$5million Allocated to Projects
The Board of Optometry Giving Sight met in October 2007 to approve a US$5 million triennial funding program for vision care projects in Africa, Sri Lanka, East Timor and Indigenous Australia.The first US$1million has been allocated and will be distributed by early 2008. The funds > more
Help Support Our Vision for Children
Optometry Giving Sight has issued a challenge to optometrists to donate the fees from their eye exams on Thursday, 11 October – World Sight Day – to help the estimated 13 million children who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye exam and a pair > more
Prof Holden Awarded for Excellence
Professor Brien Holden recently received the Donald R. Korb Award for excellence in contact lens practice from the Contact Lens Section of the American Optometric Association. Presenting the Award at the 2007 Optometry’s Meeting in Boston (the joint Annual American Optometric Association Congress > more
Durban Declaration outlines strategies for blindness prevention
The inaugural World Congress on Refractive Error that was held in Durban in March has produced a declaration that will help shape the development of global public health strategies for what is now recognized as the leading form of preventable blindness worldwide, uncorrected refractive error. > more
