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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.

"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."

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!

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.

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.

Charlotte Gray was born December 5, 2010, filling the hearts of her parents, Kristen and Gordon, with the same joy all parents feel. She developed at the pace of a typical baby and toddler – walking and talking, with an early passion for gymnastics, dancing and swimming. However, after Charlotte’s first full year of preschool, her parents noticed she had hit a plateau developmentally. After countless questions, and seemingly as many tests, Charlotte was diagnosed in March 2015 with Late Infantile NCL Batten Disease CLN6. The diagnosing geneticist explained that this neurodegenerative brain disease was extremely rare and would leave Charlotte blind, immobile, cognitively impaired, and, ultimately, gone…somewhere between the age of 6 and 12. Their world shattered, Kristen and Gordon immediately had their younger daughter Gwenyth tested and she was given the same grim diagnosis. While Charlotte is showing early symptoms of the disease, she remains strong, with her happiness and smile still constant. However, due to the pace at which Batten disease advances, action must be taken immediately to prevent Charlotte’s progression down Batten’s debilitating path and shield Gwen, and all future children impacted by Batten disease, from its painful effects. 

THE MISSION OF THE SIGHT CENTER IS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS AND PROMOTE INDEPENDENCE FOR THOSE WITH VISION LOSS AND THOSE WHO ARE BLIND.

Formulation of programs for blind

PROMOTING INCREASED INDEPENDENCE TO MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE BLIND BY PROVIDING THEM WITH HIGHEST QUALITY GUIDE DOGS.

The Fiat Lux Foundation's mission is to prevent and reverse blindness in the developing world. We partner with local ophthalmologists to build sustainable eye treatment centers in underserved areas.