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The mission of the Center for the Visually Impaired is to empower people impacted by vision loss to live with independence and dignity.>We serve anyone with vision loss from partially sighted to fully blind. >Regardless of age or income level, CVI has four programs to suit the needs at each life-stage.>Operate an onsite retail store with a wide assortment of aids for the visually impaired.>Central, convenient location in Midtown Atlanta.

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.

"To provide a centralized statewide agency with auxiliary support services for deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind, late-deafened persons, including persons with hearing losses and those hearing persons with loss of voice, regardless of race, age, and gender such that they can be provided opportunities to succeed in areas of employment; education; housing; economics; and independence; and also be provided legal and fair judicial representation which are seldom provided. Such opportunities and legal rights are currently not obtainable or are being denied."

Aravind Eye Foundation was established in 2000 to promote sustainable, high-quality, patient-centric eye care and eliminate needless blindness throughout the world. It does so by sharing best practices and facilitating partnerships with universities, social enterprises, other non-profits, and interested individuals and through its targeted investment in capacity building, community outreach, medical research, and patient support. Aravind Eye Foundation is part of the internationally renowned Aravind Eye Care System.

Optometry Giving Sight raises funds for sustainable vision care services for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error. It funds projects in the developing world that provide long term delivery of eye care services, training of locals and building of eye care infrastructure. 85% of every donated (and tax deductible) dollar goes directly to the project fund. Optometry Giving Sight is the International Charity of Choice of both the AAO and the CAO.

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.

It is estimated more than 19 million children worldwide are visually impaired. Over 60% of them would have no impairment if they had access to glasses. One way we want to help is by empowering communities to focus on sustainable local entrepreneurship projects that target the prevention of visual impairment and avoidable blindness from the very start. We are a group of dedicated individuals, all volunteering our time to this cause. Please join us in our mission and help kids see. Your time & support is necessary in order to achieve this goal. Thank you!

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.

SevaChild originated and manages one of India’s fastest growing humanitarian networks. We specialize in providing life-sustaining micronutrients to well over 1,000,000 children each year. Our goal is to eradicate the presence of vitamin A deficiency disorders throughout all of India by ensuring that at-risk children are supplemented with the vitamin A that is necessary to protect them from serious illness, blindness and even death. SevaChild is a 501 (c)(3) public nonprofit organization in the United States, and a Section 8 company (not for profit under the Companies Act, 2013) in India. Our international headquarters is in Los Angeles and our Indian headquarters is in Mumbai.

ErinoakKids is Ontario’s largest children’s treatment centre, serving over 13,500 children and youth with physical and developmental disabilities, autism, and communication disorders as well as children who are deaf or blind. Our goal is to help each child we serve to build on his/her unique strengths, and to maximize opportunities for independence, health and well-being. We also help families as they meet the challenges of everyday life. Serving Halton, Peel, Dufferin – and for some of our services – Waterloo and Wellington – ErinoakKids has more than 650 staff and 8 sites from which we provide a comprehensive array of medical, therapy and support services that help children and their families.

DIGA’s primary goals are: • To encourage people with significant disabilities to seek the enjoyment and health benefits available through gardening; • To provide an opportunity for integrating disabled gardeners with their able-bodied counterparts, creating a gardening community that is blind to physical barriers; • To provide disabled gardeners with volunteer engineering services for the adaptation and customization of gardening tools, making the activity accessible to all. DIGA supports these goals through: • Seasonal workshops held at local gardens, featuring expert speakers and educational programs, all complemented by online and print material; • Delivery of community-based, in-home volunteer services to disabled gardeners; • Partnering with the Tetra Society of North America to benefit from their volunteers’ skill and experience – allowing for the highest quality of adapted tools for our members.

Community Recreational Initiatives Society (CRIS) operates out of Kelowna, BC, providing outdoor and wilderness opportunities for adults and children with disabilities in the Okanagan and beyond. CRIS is dedicated to assisting people with physical and mental disabilities to participate in and enjoy firsthand the true experience of the outdoors by enabling them to access local and remote hiking trails, lakes and backcountry areas through the use of specially adapted tools and equipment. Programs vary from an hour to several days, depending on the participants and their desires. CRIS daily programs include Adaptive Hiking (hiking, trailriding & camping), Adaptive Paddling (canoeing & kayaking) and Tandem Cycling (with BC Blinds Sports and our own recumbent trikes). Programs are offered in local and provincial parks and waterways. In addition to the daily programs, CRIS offers overnight and multiple-day trips to remote wilderness regions.