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  • Marchon event raises funds

    Marchon hosted their annual Club Marchon party on October 8, 2010 during International Vision Expo West. The event took place at the Flamingo Hotel and attracted upwards of 7,000 attendees and exhibitors. The party took place in the lovely garden and po...

  • J&J Vision Care raise $2,000

    Johnson & Johnson Vision Care in Canada took the World Sight Day Challenge for the first time on October 14th.  Renee Pare tells us more...   ...

  • Meet Alito…

    Father of two young children, Alito, has been working as an Eye Care Nurse in East Timor for six years.  “…in East Timor people are not educated, they live in the rural areas and there it is difficult to get access to the media.  That’s why the...

  • AOP Members raise £4,000

    In May Optometry Giving Sight in the UK was delighted to receive a donation of £4,172 from Association of Optometrists (AOP) members who chose to ‘Tick YES to OGS’. The cheque was presented to Donna Power, Country Manager at the AGM meeting in Edi...

  • Replay Learning Gives Sight

    Optometry Giving Sight in the UK is delighted to announce that Replay Learning has become its newest National Silver Sponsor.  Replay Learning is committed to helping Optometry Giving Sight fund a long term solution to give sight to the millions of pe...

  • CIBA VISION achieves record

    Once again CIBA VISION UK took on the Company Challenge on World Sight Day, raising money for Optometry Giving Sight and Vision Aid Overseas in order to help the 670 million people worldwide who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not h...

  • Essilor takes World Sight Day Company Challenge

    Essilor UK also took the World Sight Day Company Challenge again this year, running a series of events during World Sight Day.  Staff enjoyed a ‘wacky costume day’, raffles which had prizes ranging from an iPod nano through to winning additional h...

  • Maeve Smiles for Sight in Ireland

    Optometry Giving Sight in Ireland is proud to be supported by Maeve Higgins an Irish Comedienne. Maeve is a spectacle wearer herself, with a keen interest in sustainable development. Maeve spent much of her childhood in Africa, and is very aware that a...

  • SUNY Student Raises $1565

    When James Kim, a student at SUNY College of Optometry in Manhattan, USA, became President of SUNY’s former Leo Club he decided to achieve two important tasks: to grow SUNY’s Leo Club to a fully recognized Lions Club and to raise significant funds ...

  • Thank you for Saying YEStoday

    Thank you to everyone who participated in the ‘Say YEStoday for a better tomorrow’ fundraising program. Optometrists across the US, Australia and Canada made donations and invited their patients to ‘buy a brick’ in return for a small donation....

  • New Canadian Sponsors

    We are thrilled to announce two new Canadian Optometry Giving Sight sponsors. Westgroupe has become a Gold National Sponsor and Carl Zeiss Vision Inc. has become a Silver National Sponsor. “Westgroupe is pleased to be partnering with Optometry Giving ...

  • Thanks to UK optical community!

    This year’s World Sight Day Challenge in October demonstrated record participation in the UK, where the optical profession once again united to make a difference and help the 670 million people worldwide who are blind or vision impaired simply becaus...

  • International Vision Expo new National In-Kind Supporter Sponsor in USA

    Optometry Giving Sight in the USA is pleased to recognize International Vision Expo as their latest National In-Kind Supporter. International Vision Expo & Conference is the largest fashion, medical and technology eyewear and eye care event in the Amer...

  • Children’s Challenge in Ingrams Opticians

    Throughout the month of October, Ingrams Opticians promoted the World Sight Day Challenge in their practice with a local primary school through a competition to design a pair of spectacles. They also had an African themed window display, a competition ...

  • Dr Murphy Appointed Chair of US National Committee

    Dr. Mary Anne Murphy of Front Range Eye Associates, P.C., in Broomfield, CO will lead Optometry Giving Sight’s efforts in the United States to raise funds for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error. She will replac...

  • Optometry Giving Sight Donors and Sponsors Honored

    The Brien Holden Vision Institute hosted “a very special dinner” in San Francisco on 18th November to honor its major donors and sponsors and to celebrate the achievements of the charity and its impact on blindness prevention and low vision through...

  • $1.2 million to projects

    It has been another significant year in the development of Optometry’s International Charity of Choice, Optometry Giving Sight, with more than $US1.2 million disbursed in 2010 to an ever increasing number of sustainable vision care projects throughou...

  • GenOp rises to Challenge

    Jonathon Lewis, Managing Director of General Optical in Australia, raised over AU$6,700 for Optometry Giving Sight by completing a grueling 210km bike ride the day after World Sight Day. Jonathon’s colleagues at General Optical also participated in t...

  • Johnson & Johnson now Gold National Sponsor!

    Johnson & Johnson Vision Care have increased their commitment to Optometry Giving Sight in Canada by becoming a Gold National Sponsor.  "We have just concluded a very successful first sponsorship year with Optometry Giving Sight and we are pleased t...

  • Thank you to the Challengers!

    Thank you to everyone who participated in the World Sight Day Challenge in October throughout Australia!  It was incredible to see more people than ever before participating.  Each and every donation you made, and helped secure from your patients, wi...