When the East Timor Eye Program was founded, no eye care was available anywhere in the country. Optometry Giving Sight funds the optometric input into the East Timor Eye Program through the support of ProVision Optometry Teams who provide primary eye care services and training for local staff.

There are more than 1.6 million people living in the Hill Country districts of Kegalle, Badulla and Ampara yet until recently most had little or no access to vision care services. This program aims to establish sustainable eye care services for those in need.

Optometry Giving Sight has announced plans to fund a project that will address the vision care needs of 77,000 children in a remote area of Southern China by training and monitoring fourth year optometry students and local health workers to screen for refractive errors and infectious eye diseases.  5,000 children will be screened in the first session of the project.

This program will develop a Vision Centre within the Eye Department of the District 7 Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, for the people in the area.  The Vision Centre aims to provide Refractive Error services and complement the other activities of the existing department.  The trained eye nurse at the hospital will receive a training course to upgrade current skills.

The OAA WA’s Remote Optometry Outreach Service provides vision care to remote Indigenous Australians within the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia. Optometry Giving Sight has provided funding to help support the expansion of optometric services in this region and provide training for the locum optometrists who contribute their services. This includes cross cultural and 4WD training.

In the outlying areas of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, there is limited access to refractive error services or spectacle providers. Optometry Giving Sight is providing funding to develop a Peripheral Refraction Clinic which will provide affordable spectacles to the people of the area.

Funds were granted to Equal Health in Western Australia to support an Optical Program to be undertaken in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

For most people living in Sumba, an island in West Timor, a pair of glasses is out of their financial reach. In 2008 Optometry Giving Sight provided funds for a vision care delivery trip providing eye exams and glasses to people in need.