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OGS Awards Nearly $1 million in grants for 2025

With the Generous Support of our Donors in 2025: The generous support of our donors has enabled Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) to award grants totaling nearly $1 million USD to fund the following projects, designed to provide both short-term and long-term, sustainable...

Optometry Giving Sight Kicks Off 2025 World Sight Day Challenge

To support its mission to eradicate uncorrected refractive error through the growth and expansion of optometry around the world, Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has issued its 2025 World Sight Day Challenge. Held in conjunction with World Sight Day, the Challenge will...

VuePoint IDS & OGS Expand Partnership

VuePoint IDS and Optometry Giving Sight Expand Partnership with New 10/10 Program Supporting Continuing Education and Global Vision Care VuePoint IDS is proud to announce the renewal and expansion of its partnership with Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) for 2025....

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.