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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
