Optical supply companies and their staff can celebrate the World Sight Day Challenge by making a donation and/or encourage their staff to participate through office fundraising activities, such as barbeques and sponsored events.
Please take the Company Challenge:
- Make a company donation today, (and / or match employee donations).
- Arrange a workplace fundraising event to celebrate World Sight Day (Thursday 13 October).
- Make a personal donation.
Buy your World Sight Day Challenge t-shirt
Purchase World Sight Day Challenge t-shirts to wear during October in your practice, workplace or university/college. T-shirts are available in a range of male and female sizes and discounts are available for bulk purchases.
Like some free publicity?
Use our template press release to tell your local community how you are helping to transform lives through the gift of vision by taking the World Sight Day Challenge (simply click on your country flag to download a localised copy). Companies can download the press release, fill in the gaps and send to their local newspaper. For more tips on how to get the most out of the press release download our guide (see table below).
Letting your employees know
Your employees will be interested to learn of your involvement in the World Sight Day Challenge. To help you share your news we have produced a template article that companies can download and insert in their company newsletter or intranet (see table below). Simply tailor it to your company and copy it into your next issue.
Ideas for a fun and easy staff event:
- BBQ – Send out flyers to businesses within your complex or near your location and ask them to join in on this special occasion. Set a price, say $5 (or equivalent in your country) for a hot dog and can of soft drink. The company pays for the food.
- Run a raffle – Ask suppliers within your business to donate a prize that you can use in your raffle. Put together a raffle ticket book – to save on cost use the photocopier to print the books and staff in office to help put the books together. It doesn’t take long! Offer each person in the company a book to sell of 10 tickets = $20 a book. As an incentive you can give 2 Gold Class movie tickets to the person who sells the most books. Remember all prizes are donated so it is 100% profit to Optometry Giving Sight.
- Sweets in a Jar Guessing Competition - Fill a jar with either jellybeans, M&M’s or other small sweets. Guess how many are in the jar – first determine the cost per guess e.g. $1 a guess. The closet guess wins the jar and its full contents.
See our 'Ideas Sheet' below for more great ideas or download our Company Challenge FAQs for more information.
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Contact your local office for more information.
Optometry Giving Sight is a joint initiative of the World Optometry Foundation (WOF), the International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and supports the goals of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. World Sight Day is an initiative of VISION 2020.
