Eye-M-Growing
Hoya Vision Care’s “Eye-MGrowing” program, Hoya gives
children up to thirteen the opportunity
to replace their lenses for free within
fifteen months of their original order.
This program ensures that children’s
changing prescriptions, and likelihood
to damage their glasses, do not cause
an unnecessary financial burden for
their families.
Additionally, Hoya sponsors the
Lions Foundation of Canada Dog
Guides Program, which provides
guide dogs at no cost to Canadians
with disabilities. And in partnership
with the International Agency for
the Prevention of Blindness, Hoya
participates in the World Sight Day
Challenge fundraising campaign. In
2013, the money they raised through
potlucks, book sales, and raffles
earned them a bronze award.
www.hoyavision.com
Meeting The Challenge
Optometry Giving Sight (OGS),
the organization which runs the
World Sight Day challenge has been
helping people see better since 2005
In that time they have raised over two
million dollars for charity in Canada
alone. The money they raise goes
toward projects all over the world
— mostly Asia, Africa, and Latin
America. In the past seven years,
OGS has spent approximately $10
million on 72 projects in 38 different
countries.
The team at Cooper Vision put
their resources together to donate
$100,000 to OGS. Employees in over
30 locations worldwide participated
in a global fundraising campaign
and organized local activities to
help raise funds for the 2013 World
Sight Day Challenge. The Cooper
Companies, the parent company of
CooperVision, matched all employee
donations.
www.coopervision.com
Industry Effort
Plastic Plus Ltd. is another lens
manufacturer that is deeply involved
in philanthropic outreach such as
working with Canadian Vision Care
(CVC).
Since 1981 CVC volunteers have
provided primary eyecare (eye exams
and glasses) and surgical care to
hundreds of thousands of individuals
around the world. CVC is proud to
have created a structure where the
3 O’s (Optometry, Ophthalmology,
and Opticians) work together
to deliver integrated care in the
developing world.
Companies,
students
and
practitioners regularly visit small
towns around the world, where
they provide refracting and fitting
services to people who would
otherwise have been unable to get the
glasses they need.
www.canadianvisioncare.com
www.plasticplus.ca
screening program.
They have been involved in the
program since 2006, which aims
to identify children with vision
disorders. Essilor supplies lenses free
of charge if the families identified by
the program cannot afford them.
They are also involved in more
than 200 Vision projects around
the world including Essilor Vision
Foundation which has screened more
than 190,000 children since 2007.
Their Mobile Refraction Vans
have screened more than 400,000
people in 2,500 villages in India
bringing sight to people who would
otherwise have no access to medical
care.
www.essilor.com
Sharing Sight
Gaining Access To Care
Modern Optical has always taken
eyecare of thos