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Sightsavers' vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes, and where vision impaired people participate equally in society. Sightsavers' mission is to eliminate avoidable blindness, and make sure those whose sight can't be restored receive the support they need to live independently by providing education, support and training. We work with local partners in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Caribbean.

Seva Foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight worldwide. Our programs build the capacity of underserved communities to provide comprehensive and high-quality eye care that is accessible by all.

International Eye Foundation is dedicated to helping people see! Since 1961 IEF has taken up the challenge in poor countries around the world, helping to restore sight and prevent blindness. IEF offers strong new strategic directions that focus on making eye clinics financially self sufficient. IEFs achievements include developing eye health services, training ophthalmologists and para-medicals, and fighting vitamin A deficiency, trachoma and river blindness. IEF is now strengthening the management, quality of service, and income generating activities so that eye clinics are less dependent on outside donors and government funds.

BC Guide Dog Services began the professional training of guide dogs for blind & visually impaired British Columbians in 1996. In 2001, B.C. Guide Dog Services became full members of the International Guide Dog Federation, an international accrediting body. In 2002, B.C. Guide Dog Services registered the title Alberta Guide Dog Services for the purposes of providing guide dogs to blind & visually impaired Albertans. The goal of BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services is, by the year 2020, to have a working guide dog population of 250 guide dog teams. The working life of a guide dog team is about eight years, therefore, BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services will need to have graduated a cumulative total of 395 guide dog teams by 2020 to achieve this goal. BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services gives priority to blind & visually impaired youths between the ages of 13 and 18 years. Alberta Guide Dog Services, PO Box 5471, Stn A, Calgary, AB T2H 1X8 Tel: 403-258-0819.

LCIF, was established in 1968 as the humanitarian arm of Lions Clubs International. It supports the activities of Lions throughout the world with particular emphasis on blindness prevention and sight restoration projects (SightFirst), youth programs, aiding the disabled, and emergency and disaster relief grants to assist communities impacted by natural catastrophes.

One Kids Place Children's Treatment Centre offers a range of community-based rehabilitation services to help children and youth with special needs and their families. OUR SERVICES: PHYSIOTHERAPY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY; SOCIAL WORK; THERAPEUTIC RECREATION; INFANT HEARING PROGRAM; BLIND/LOW VISION PROGRAM; SPECIALIZED CLINICS

SERVICES ONTARIO EARLY YEARS Programs which include parenting courses, workshops, emergent literacy, single parent groups, groups for mothers and their infants and drop-in sessions. ESSEX PRESCHOOL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE (TALK 2 ME) Offers assessment and a range of intervention services for families who have concerns about their child’s speech, language or emergent literacy skills, from birth to the year they start school. ESSEX-KENT INFANT HEARING PROGRAM Offers universal newborn hearing screening, high risk monitoring and additional services for families of children identified with a permanent hearing loss living in Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent counties. ESSEX-KENT BLIND-LOW VISION PROGRAM Offers specialized family-centred services for children who are born blind or with low vision. VOLUNTEER / STUDENT PLACEMENT PROGRAM This program offers orientation, training and supervision to community volunteers and student placements.

We provide essential and transformative eyecare, around the world and right here at home. We bring medical volunteers and partners together to care for the people who need it most. Our teams work side-by-side with local doctors and clinics to improve access to high-quality eyecare. Together we break the cycle of hardship that blindness and visual impairment cause, making patients, families, and communities healthier and stronger.

Founded in October, 2014, our mission is to provide Self Defense skills to promote empowerment and increase confidence, build on one's self-esteem and self-worth. Our primary focus in on the the members of our Santa Barbara Community who are under-served and under-represented (Seniors, At Risk Teens, Sight Impaired to Completely Blinds, Brain Injured, suffering from Cerebral Palsy and those who are physically/mentally challenged).

The CDBA was formed in 1975 by parents of children with deafblindness who were attending the W. Ross Macdonald School for Students who are Blind and Deafblind in Brantford, Ontario. Initially, the CDBA was an advocacy organization representing a small group of children born with deafblindness largely from the congenital rubella epidemic. Its mission has been expanded from advocacy to include service provision, awareness, public education and research. The CDBA is inclusive and represents all Canadians with deafblindness.

Orbis is a leading global non-governmental organization that has worked to transform lives through the prevention and treatment of blindness for over 35 years. With our network of partners, we mentor, train and inspire local teams so they can save sight in their communities. Alongside those partners, Orbis provides hands-on ophthalmology training, strengthens healthcare infrastructure and advocates for the prioritization of eye health on public health agendas. Orbis operates the world's only Flying Eye Hospital, a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft.

Child Impact is a Christian, non-profit organization that is committed to making a difference in the lives of children and people in poverty. Child Impact provides needy children an education in Adventist mission schools through its sponsorship program in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka & Papua New Guinea. As well as sponsorship, Child Impact funds 4 orphanages, a blind school & a deaf school in India. Its Operation Child Rescue program rescues trafficked girls, slum children & abandoned babies in India. Child Impact is a child focused ministry making a real difference.