Desalegn is an 11 year old from the town of Gorgora in North Western Ethiopia. He is blind in one eye due to an accident and he had always struggled to make friends due to his poor vision in his other eye. He queued for hours to be seen by a VAO volunteer, who found [...]

Lidiya lives in a small village in Zambia. She always had major problems with her eyes and even walking without assistance was a struggle. She was unable to benefit from school so she never managed to get a job. Most of her time was spent at home although there was little she could do to [...]

There are 1.5M people with a learning disability and 1 in 3 are estimated to have a sight problem. These problems too often go undetected because many people are not able to participate in a standard eye test. Consequently their sight deteriorates as does their quality of life. SeeAbility’s eye 2 eye Campaign promotes awareness [...]

The Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre (RDCEC) was officially opened in February 2007, by Her Majesty the Queen. Since then, the new centre has made a huge contribution in treating NHS children with eye disease. In excess of 22,000 outpatient clinic appointments have been provided and over 1,300 operations have been performed in the new [...]

Dollond & Aitchison is a Titanium member of Vision Aid Overseas. Vision Aid Overseas is a charity dedicated to helping people in the developing world whose lives are blighted by poor eyesight.
Started in 1985, Vision Aid Overseas has provided 500,000 eye tests and given 250,000 people the ability to see with a pair of glasses. [...]

D&A’s first ever “Charity of the Year” relationship took place in 2006, when it formed a partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital, pledging to raise £75,000 towards the new International Children’s Eye Centre that the Hospital was building. The Centre is a dedicated facility which aims to become the best clinical, research and training centre for [...]

D&A works with Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) offering D&A Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians who wish to broaden their experience the opportunity to volunteer for VAO projects overseas.
D&A volunteers as part of a VAO approved team help to run, or establish clinics, in countries where a professional eye examination, or acquiring a pair of glasses to [...]

Vision Aid Overseas is a charity dedicated to people in the developing world whose lives are blighted by poor eyesight.
300 million people in the developing world need spectacles to live an ordinary life, but do not have them due to poverty and the lack of optical services. The World Health Organization has acknowledged this as [...]