With your gift, AMREF will train and equip a volunteer to make visit nearby families, to keep track of who in each family has an infection using colored beads, and to treat the infection with antibiotic ointment. If someone has had repeated infections, the eyelid will begin to turn in, and this will eventually scar the cornea and cause blindness. The trachoma worker will refer...

Your gift will provide the vitamin A that will protect the lives and sight of 100 children for a full year.

Trained lab technicians make the entire vision care process come together in the optical laboratory, and play a key role in providing the gift of good sight for a poor person. Your gift of $34 pays for one hour of training for an optical lab techician to help ensure proper lenses for poor patients' eye wear.

Your donation will provide a kit of miscellaneous accessories for an optical laboratory in a developing country. Prices are approximate as models and prices may change.

Your gift will provide a professional eye exam plus a matched pair of durable prescription glasses for a needy person overseas--young or old ($30.00), OR make a more substantial difference with a sight-saving combination of exams and glasses for a dozen people ($360.00). Prices do not include shipping which varies by destination. In any event, YOU can make a difference!

Your donation will equip a village-based primary eye care provider or health workers with a FOCOMETER®. The FOCOMETER® is an optical device that allows providers to measure visual errors and dispense corrective lenses. It is easy to use and does not require electricity. The FOCOMETER® gives reasonably close readings (within 0.5 diopter) when compared with other refracting methods. The device has been tested with success...

International Relief Teams will send a team of physicians and nurses to provide surgery for people in remote areas who have no other way of obtaining this assistance. The team takes all of the medical equipment, instruments, medicines and supplies needed to perform surgery. Your donation of $60 will restore the eyesight of a person previously blinded by cataracts.

Endorsed by the World Health Organization, the surgery is a simple, cost-effective procedure that provides immediate, tangible relief from the painful and debilitating symptoms of trichiasis and prevents further progression to blindness. The surgery can be performed in fifteen minutes by trained health workers in any sanitary location - village health centers, classrooms, even under a tree - making it possible for people in the...

Zithromax, an antibiotic donated by Pfizer, has been proven to treat infection in individuals and suppress transmission in the community. Your donation will allow us to treat over 500 individuals with antibiotics by covering the cost of distribution.

The bandage is removed, a moment of surprise, then a radiant smile beams as the patient sees the faces of the loved ones for the first time in years. A Gift of Sight is the miracle of vision restored. Offering a whole new world to its recipient, this gift provides for vision correcting surgery, medication and follow-up.

You can make a significant, meaningful, tangible impact in the lives of children and adults worldwide. Each cataract surgery completey restores someone's sight in approximately 15-30 minutes, and the cost of the surgery in Chennai, India is $100. Every dollar donated makes a tremendous impact on the lives of children and adults. Unite For Sight's volunteers work as support staff with eye clinics in Africa...

You can make a significant, meaningful, tangible impact in the lives of children and adults worldwide. Each cataract surgery completely restores someone's sight in approximately 15-30 minutes, and the cost of the surgery in Accra, Ghana is $85. Every dollar donated makes a tremendous impact on the lives of children and adults. Unite For Sight's volunteers work as support staff with eye clinics in Africa...

You can make a significant, meaningful, tangible impact in the lives of children and adults worldwide. Each cataract surgery completey restores someone's sight in approximately 15-30 minutes, and the average cost of the surgery is $60. Every dollar donated makes a tremendous impact on the lives of children and adults. Unite For Sight's volunteers work as support staff with eye clinics in Africa and Asia....

An extimated 66.8 million people have glaucoma, and 6.7 million people are blind from this irreversible condition. Glaucoma is a gradual disease that steals sight, but can be treated with eye drops. Unite For Sight and Crystal Eye Clinic provide free glaucoma treatment to refugees at Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana, and the patients need refills of medication on a monthly basis for the rest...

You can make a significant, meaningful, tangible impact in the lives of children and adults worldwide. Each cataract surgery completely restores someone's sight in approximately 15-30 minutes, and the cost of the surgery in Tamale, Ghana is $60. Every dollar donated makes a tremendous impact on the lives of children and adults. Unite For Sight's volunteers work as support staff with eye clinics in Africa...

A gift of $100 will provide a Vision Entrepreneur with a “Business in a Bag” allowing them to start a VisionSpring micro-franchise. This includes 30 pairs of brand-new reading glasses, 10 pairs of sunglasses, eye drops, cases, cords, a uniform, marketing materials, and a bag in which to organize and carry all of these items.

Your gift of $250 will enable two Vision Entrepreneurs to conduct a vision screening camp by supplying marketing materials, reading glasses for the village, and transportation to the village.

A donation of $10 will restore vision and hope to one person by providing them affordable reading glasses.

With a gift of $5 you will provide a Vision Entrepreneur with the professional items they need to do their job and instill faith in their customers. Your generous gift will supply a Vision Entrepreneur with items they need, such as uniforms, ID, and professional eye charts. Through the familiar faces of local Vision Entrepreneurs, VisionSpring glasses reach the people who need them most, creating...

Due to the lack of awareness about the existence of low cost reading glasses among people in the developing world, our Vision Entrepreneurs find it necessary to launch comprehensive marketing campaigns which educate the public about eye health, as well as showing off their different products. This gift, of $50, will enable a Vision Entrepreneur to pay for these important eye care campaigns, increasing the...