Canada World Sight Day Challenge 2014
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,...
Pioneering Optometry in Vietnam
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...
A simple eye exam could have saved this woman’s sight!
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...
Ralph from Haiti
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...
Optometry plays a role in the reconstruction of Haiti
“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...
Luis from El Salvador
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...
First Mozambican optometrists
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...
Nepalese children receive first ever eye care
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...
Grant Assists Optometry School in Cameroon
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...
Uganda: Sheila
Sheila is one of the first female optometrists who graduated from the School of Optometry in Makerere University, Uganda. She graduated in January 2019 and completed her 6-month internship.