‘Giving Together, Seeing Forever’: 2024 World Sight Day Challenge underway
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Optometry Giving Sight has kicked off its 2024 World Sight Day Challenge fundraiser with the theme, “Giving Together, Seeing Forever,” to celebrate the power of the optometry community and efforts to eradicate uncorrected refractive error.
“We use donations to meet the immediate need globally for eye exams and eyeglasses, and to provide a long-term solution by expanding the optometry profession in places where it’s needed most,” Lois Schoenbrun, FAAO, the organization’s executive director, said in an OGS press release.
The challenge runs until the end of October, with World Sight Day celebrated on Oct. 10. One-time or recurring donations can be made on the OGS website, and funds raised will support programs that create long-term, sustainable solutions worldwide, including establishing optometry schools, vision centers and optical labs in underserved areas.
“Your level of involvement in the World Sight Day Challenge is up to you,” Steve Rice, OD, from Vision Clinic in Springfield, Missouri, said in the release. “You can do a little or a lot. Whatever you do, you’ll find your staff, your patients and you expanding the benevolence that is likely already a part of your practice to make change throughout the world.”
According to the release, OGS funding has provided basic eye care services to more than 8 million individuals in more than 47 countries over the past 20 years, in addition to establishing more than 130 vision centers and training more than 14,000 eye care personnel.
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