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CooperVision Raises More Than $300,000 in Support of OGS’s 2023 World Sight Day Challenge
– CooperVision’s Cumulative Donation Now Approaches $5 Million – As part of its commitment to improve the way people see every day, CooperVision raised more than $300,000 in 2023 through global initiatives in support of Optometry Giving Sight (OGS). OGS...
Supporting the Growth of Optometry in Vietnam
We greatly appreciate the support of donors, whose generosity enables us to support projects like this optometry school in...
2023 Projects Supported
With the Generous Support of our Donors in 2023: Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) awarded the following 2023 grants totaling more than $930,000 to partner organizations in support of self-sustaining initiatives that address preventable vision impairment and blindness for...
Case Studies
Uganda: Patrick Teira
It was not until one of our career guidance sessions in my final year of secondary school when one of my teachers talked about the newly introduced optometry course at Makerere University. It was then that I formerly got introduced to the optometry profession.
I feel like my life can being now
Emmanuel is a 12 year old boy who didn’t attend school. He wished every day he could go with the other children in the village but he had been nearly blind since birth. He spent his days in his village which he knew well enough to get around. His local community tried to look out for him to help him stay safe.
Albino Children in Africa
Albinism is a congenital disorder that is characterised by the partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, eyes and hair. The disorder has a very high prevalence in Tanzania with 1 in every 1,200 people suffering from it.