Project Updates

News

CooperVision and Dr. Greg Pearl Named Brien Holden Founders Award Recipients

Optometry Giving Sight Brien Holden Founders Award Dinner to be Held October 7 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...

Optometry Giving Sight Chair Receives Award from World Optometry Council

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. Dr. Cooper has served as the OGS Canada Board Chair since 2019...

CooperVision Surpasses $5 Million in Cumulative Fundraising for Optometry Giving Sight’s World Sight Day Challenge

April 7, 2025 — CooperVision announced that through the commitment and generosity of its employees around the world, the company has cumulatively raised more than $5 million for the Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) World Sight Day Challenge. CooperVision is the largest...

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.