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Corporate Partner Spotlight: TerraCycle

TerraCycle has supported Optometry Giving Sight since 2017 through its collaboration with Bausch + Lomb and the launch of the ONE by ONE Recycling Program. Since the program began, TerraCycle Recycling Rewards totaling the equivalent of $282,000 have been donated to...

Congratulations Queensway Optometric Centre

Ontario Practice Wins World Sight Day Challenge Honor Queensway Optometric Centre in Mississauga, Ontario proudly led the way as the top fundraising optometry practice in North America for the 2025 World Sight Day Challenge, raising an impressive $10,900. Queensway’s...

Donations in Action – A School Transformed in Grabouw

Clear Vision, New Confidence Grantee: African Eye Institute Each year, donations to Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) enable the organization to fund projects globally that provide immediate eyecare to those in need today, and expand optometry so vision care is available...

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.