Transforming lives through the gift of vision

ByHanna Diewald

WestGroupe is a proud supporter of Optometry Giving Sight. The company offers in Canada a complete frames & lens package with the Superflex collection in partnership with Zeiss lenses. Together they have raised over $20,000 to date. From every package sold, WestGroupe and Zeiss donate a portion to Optometry Giving Sight. The funds raised benefit Optometry Giving Sight’s 47 projects in 24 countries for affordable and accessible eye care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Optometry Giving Sight is the only global fundraising initiative that specifically targets the prevention of blindness and impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error – simply, the need for an exam and a pair of glasses. More than 600 million people around the world are blind or vision impaired because they do not have access to the eye examination glasses they need.

For more information about Optometry Giving Sight please visit www.givingsight.org

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