Sight can make the difference between a life of poverty and a life of opportunity.
There are 670 million men, women and children globally who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye exam and a pair of glasses. More than 90% live in developing countries.
Optometry Giving Sight funds the solution by supporting programs that offer not only eye exams and glasses, but that establish vision centers and train local eye care professionals in communities with little or no access to eye care services.
Give the Gift of Vision this Holiday Season and Transform a Life
Holiday gifts that give something back and that can help transform a life are the perfect presents for those friends, family, customers and colleagues who have everything.
Optometry Giving Sight now offers an online Gift of Vision™ catalogue full of gift ideas that will really transform lives by addressing the needs of the millions of people who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye exam and a pair of glasses.
The Gift of Vision makes holiday gift shopping quick and easy. First, go online to www.givingsight.org/giftofvision and choose your gift. Then, write a personalized message for the card your friend or relative will receive, which includes details of their gift. Optometry Giving Sight does the rest by sending the card and using your gift contribution to fund programs that deliver sustainable vision care services in the developing world.
Just $25 can provide an eye exam and pair of glasses for up to five people in countries with little or no access to quality vision care. A simple pair of glasses can eliminate the cycle of poverty by enabling children to go to school and parents to provide for their families.
How Optometry Giving Sight Helps
By the end of 2009, Optometry Giving Sight will have distributed $3 million through its partners to help screen and provide basic eye care services to more than 1.7 million people, train 1,550 mid-level eye care personnel, and create 101 vision centers/optical workshops. The funds will be directed to projects in Sri Lanka, Southern Africa, East Timor, Latin America, Indigenous Australia, Papua New Guinea, as well other parts of the world
How You Can Help
The easiest way to help is to make either a one-time or regular donation. Optometry Giving Sight guarantees that 85% of all funds raised go directly to programs that give sight to those most in need.
Ask your Optometrist if he or she is giving the Gift of Vision this holiday season.
Visit the Optometry Giving Sight website:
Optometry Giving Sight
1019 8th Street
Suite 304
Golden, CO 80401
Tel: 888-OGS-GIVE
Tel: 303-526-0430
Fax: 303-279-8042
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