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The generous support of our donors has enabled Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) to award grants totaling nearly $1 million USD in 2025 to fund the following projects, designed to provide both short-term and long-term, sustainable solutions to the issue of uncorrected refractive error globally. In all, 24 grants were awarded to 21 organizations.

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 take place from September 1 through October 31. World Sight Day is celebrated on October 9.

VuePoint IDS is proud to announce the renewal and expansion of its partnership with Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) for 2025. This professional in-kind service announcement commitment from VuePoint to help further OGS’s mission of eradicating preventable blindness and vision impairment around the world.

Thank you to the following practices, which have recently joined TEAM OGS, our year-round patient and staff-focussed fundraising initiative! TEAM OGS is an easy, impactful way for your practice to become part of our global community of professionals who are passionate about ensuring that everyone, everywhere, has access to eye care and enjoy the gift of good vision. TEAM OGS – because, Together Eyecare Achieves Miracles!

For Fiona Buckmaster, optometry is more than a profession—it’s a calling. Thanks to support from Optometry Giving Sight, she has been able to bring her expertise to Vietnam, where she is shaping the next generation of optometrists.

At just seven years old, Syamthanda’s world was blurry—literally. Like many children at Sunnyvale Primary in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, she had never had an eye exam. She struggled in class, squinting to read her assignments, falling behind despite her bright mind. But, thanks to a grant from Optometry Giving Sight, Syamthanda is thriving in school and at home!

Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) proudly announces that CooperVision, Inc. and Dr. Greg Pearl, OD, have been selected as the recipients of its first-ever Brien Holden Founders Awards. These prestigious honors, established in memory of Professor Brien Holden, PhD, the late founder of OGS, celebrate those who have made remarkable, impactful contributions to advancing global vision care.

Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Cooper has been named the recipient of the World Optometry Council’s (WCO) 2025 Distinguished Service Award in Memory of Dr. Uduak Udom.

CooperVision has cumulatively raised more than $5 million for the Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) World Sight Day Challenge. Since 2008, CooperVision employees have engaged in a variety of creative fundraising activities for the OGS World Sight Day Challenge. In 2024, the company’s sites raised nearly $290,000 through a series of regional and global initiatives.