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Why is Vision Aid Overseas needed?

Poverty and the lack of skilled opticians affect millions of people who do not have the spectacles they desperately need. For those in the developing world with poor vision, education and employment are out of reach. Many find daily living difficult and dangerous.

With the correct spectacles, people can learn, work and achieve a quality of life otherwise completely unobtainable. Hence the need for VAO.

What does Vision Aid Overseas do?

Vision Aid Overseas is a charity dedicated to helping people in the developing world whose lives are blighted by poor eyesight, particularly where spectacles can help.

It works by sending abroad teams of volunteer optometrists and dispensing opticians who set up clinics, screen large number of patients and provide appropriate spectacles.

Started in 1985, Vision Aid Overseas has provided 600,000 eye tests and given 300,000 people the ability to to see with a pair of spectacles.

What do we stand for?

Our Vision: Vision Aid Overseas works for a world in which everyone has access to eyecare and spectacles.

Our Mission: To examine the eyes of needy people in the developing world and to train people in those countries in eyecare skills.

The way we work: Founded in 1985, we work by sending abroad teams of professionally qualified optometrists and dispensing opticians who establish clinics, provide eye tests and dispense spectacles.