Benefiting the community Thousands of Tanzanians will have access to free eye care services through the Brien Holden Vision Institute, thanks to support from optometrist Dr Moes Nasser and Optometry Giving Sight. The Lake Zone Roshanali Nasser Outreach Project aims to...

After 5 years of effort by the global optometric community – Haiti’s first School of Optometry opens Vision Source Optometrists and Optometry Giving Sight Support the Training of Haiti’s First Optometrists Haiti has the highest level of blindness and vision...

Empowering local ECPs to maintain their own equipment One of the biggest challenges for many eye health programs in the developing world is equipment maintenance. Many clinics, hospitals and vision centers are unable to operate at their full potential because their...

Eye health training in India With support from Optometry Giving Sight, India Vision Institute (IVI) conducted a series of teachers’ training programs in India. They were held from from 4-11 October, for 61 teachers in 36 government and government-aided schools...

Your support at work Optometry Giving Sight in 2017 produced many wonderful stories from people whose lives were impacted through your donations. We would like to thank all our sponsors and donors for your ongoing support. One area that has given us the greatest...

$262,000 donated to Optometry Giving Sight With artwork auctions, bake sales, jeans days, raffles, barbeques and walkathons, CooperVision and its employees hit a record-breaking high this year with their fundraising efforts for the 2018 World Sight Day Challenge....

Helping to Make Children’s Vision Count Optometry Giving Sight is once again inviting all those who value good vision to support its major fundraising campaign for the year, the World Sight Day Challenge. The Challenge will run throughout October – with World...

Providing support to children impacted by Hurricane Harvey The See to Succeed Program (STS) is a safety-net vision program for Houston’s underserved children. The program provides comprehensive free eye exams and eyeglasses to those who have failed a school screening,...

Kristan Gross, the Global Executive Director of the Vision Impact Institute Optometry Giving Sight is pleased to be a partner in the Kids See: Success program being initiated in collaboration with Vision Impact Institute and VSP Global. This article, authored by...

Over 6,800 individuals receive eye screening Optometry Giving Sight and Special Olympics together are continuing to have an impact on vision services for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) both through the training of vision care professionals and...

My other life… Dr. Bob Molter is currently living in Vietnam with his wife and lecturing at the School of Optometry at Pham Ngoc Thac University (PNTU) in Ho Chi Minh City as part of a program which is supported by Brien Holden Vision Institute, Optometry Giving...

Making Optometry part of Haiti’s future. (See download Proposal and Naming opportunities below) Optometry Giving Sight is part of a coalition of organizations including the Brien Holden Vision Institute and VOSH International who are seeking to contribute to the...

8,000 new eye glasses for poor patients Optometry Giving Sight’s continued partnership with Vision for the Poor has recently made possible the equipping of a new optical lab and service at the Divino Niño Jesus (DNJ) Eye Hospital in Lima, Peru. Over the coming year...

Providing support and guidance to optometrists in emerging communities  Optometry Giving Sight is pleased to have provided funding to support the development of a unique online training program for volunteer optometrists to become eye health mentors. As part of the...

A new and sustainable legacy emerges in Malawi Laston (pictured above) is 5 years old and has been blind since birth due to congenital bilateral cataracts. In July this year the cataracts were removed, and he received some surgical implants to help restore his vision....

Members of the North American eye care community will once again join forces in a Coalition to support Optometry Giving Sight and its annual fundraising campaign, the World Sight Day Challenge held throughout September and October. This year’s Coalition members...

 A tribute I am writing this as I’m flying from Madrid to San Francisco,  after having heard over-night about the sudden and unexpected death of my dear friend, Professor Brien Holden. I was awoken by multiple e-mails and text messages from Australia, and from around...

131 million people in India, including 11 million children, are blind or vision impaired from being uncorrected or under-corrected. Most are in rural areas. Optometry Giving Sight, in association with founding partner the World Council of Optometry, is pleased to be a...

The World Sight Day Challenge is Optometry Giving Sight’s main fundraising campaign of the year to help eliminate avoidable blindness and impaired vision in underserved areas of the world. We are pleased to report that a record number of optometry practices,...

Funding from Optometry Giving Sight and the AusAID East Asia Vision Program has provided for the successful completion of the first stage of an optometry education project in Vietnam. The key objective of the project (to be completed by December 2016) is to establish...

Sorilia diagnosed with terminal glaucoma When Sorilia’s daughter learnt about eye screenings happening in her community, she hoped there was a chance her mother’s sight could be restored. Sorilia had lost her sight more than 8 years previously, and could no longer...

Transforming lives through the gift of vision As the Holiday Season approaches, your thoughts may turn to seeing family, friends and celebrating together. Many children around the world have difficulty seeing their loved ones, reading the blackboard at school or being...

“This is a wonderful time to be part of the reconstruction of our country. “ Optometry Giving Sight is part of a coalition made up of the Brien Holden Vision Institute and VOSH International, organizations that are trying to play a role in the...

60% of people in El Salvador’s rural areas live below the poverty line and 85% have no access to visual health services. For the children who suffer from untreated poor vision the effects can be devastating. Without vision services these children will forever be at a...

The first class of degree-qualified optometrists have graduated from Universidade Lúrio in Nampula this month, becoming the very first optometrists in Mozambique. Nine optometry students graduated alongside peers from other health sciences disciplines, in front of the...

The first-ever project to receive Optometry Giving Sight funding in Nepal has reported excellent progress after just six months. The Sight Conservation of Children from Marginalised Communities of Nepal project, which is an initiative of the Nepalese Association of...

Students of Optometry in Cameroon will be the direct beneficiaries of $20,000 from Canada – from the Alberta Government’s Community Initiatives Program International Development Grants. This program supports humanitarian projects in developing countries and countries...