Optometry Giving Sight Sponsor

ProVision is very proud to be an official corporate sponsor of Optometry Giving Sight. A global fundraising initiative targeting the prevention of blindness and impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error.

Supporting the Right to Sight

At least 670 million people around the world are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye examination and a pair of glasses.

In many developing countries there are not enough trained eye care personnel and there is insufficient infrastructure to support these desperately needed eyecare services.

Optometry Giving Sight funds the solution by supporting programs that offer not only eye exams and glasses in countries with little or no access to them, but that establish the infrastructure and human resources required for sustainable, quality vision care.

Optometry Giving Sight directs funds to programs in a range of countries including Sri Lanka, East Timor, Malawi, Mozambique, Peru, Nicaragua, Mexico, China, Vietnam, Indigenous Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Optometry Giving Sight supports the aims of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, a global initiative that is aiming to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020.

ProVision Optometrists' Contribution

In addition to ProVision's corporate sponsorship, individual ProVision optometrists assist Optometry Giving Sight in a number of ways including:

• making regular personal or practice donations;

• participating in the annual World Sight Day Challenge in October by donating eye examination fees and monies from associated fundraising activities;

• inviting patients, staff and others to purchase a Gift of Vision;

• donating their time and expertise on eyecare missions to target countries; read about one of our members here.

Optometry Giving Sight is an unprecedented opportunity for Optometry to make a coordinated and significant impact in the prevention of blindness. Optometry Giving Sight is a global solution to a global problem.

For further information about Optometry Giving Sight or to make a donation to assist in the global prevention of blindness, go to the Optometry Giving Sight website.