Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has announced the recipients of its 2025 grant program, awarding nearly $1 million across 24 grants to 21 organizations. The funding supports projects aimed at addressing uncorrected refractive error and expanding access to vision care worldwide.

Since the program began, OGS has awarded more than 220 grants totaling over $26 million. The organization raises funds through optometrists, practices, and industry partners to support sustainable initiatives that strengthen education, expand services, and build local capacity in underserved regions.

Highlights of 2025 Grant-Funded Projects:

• Aden Adde International University will establish an eye examination center in Mogadishu, Somalia, providing free care, affordable glasses, cataract surgery, and clinical training for students.

• African Eye Institute Trust will implement the One School at a Time program, delivering school-based screenings, eyeglasses, and health education in South Africa.

• Berkeley Vision will expand its “Every Child Sees” campaign to Pakistan through school-based initiatives addressing childhood uncorrected refractive error.

• Brien Holden Vision Institute will expand low vision services in Pakistan, establish new clinics, and train optometrists while running awareness campaigns.

• Brien Holden Foundation will strengthen Vietnam’s optometry education by equipping universities, training faculty, and providing outreach care.

• Canadian Vision Care will support clinics and student outreach in Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. In a separate project, it will continue its Eye Train initiative in the Philippines, serving patients and providing training opportunities.

• Charis Vision and Health Mission will equip Arthur Jarvis University’s optometry program in Nigeria and expand community outreach in Cross River State.

• Envision EyeCare for All will expand its Eyes on Equity mobile initiative in Oregon, providing services to marginalized rural populations.

• Healing California will broaden its mobile vision care services across California, reaching unhoused and underserved communities.

• Light for the World International will advance pediatric optometry training in Mozambique as part of a 10-year strategy under its “1, 2, 3, I Can See!” program.

• Mission for Vision will establish a permanent Vision Centre in Uttar Pradesh, India, to deliver comprehensive primary eye care.

• Nepal Optometry Students’ Society will create Nepal’s first optical laboratory for hands-on student training and workforce development.

• Optoglobe will launch the pilot phase of “Equipping the Future,” providing optical instruments to students in underserved regions.

• Queen’s University Belfast will support revisions to Zanzibar’s National Eye Care Plan, integrating optometry and low vision services into the public health system.

• See Better. Learn Better Jamaica will expand school-based vision care in Jamaica while training future practitioners in pediatric outreach.

• Special Olympics International will expand its Opening Eyes program to improve vision care for individuals with intellectual disabilities in Ghana, the U.S., and Latin America.

• University of Cape Coast will launch Opto-Scope, a mobile initiative bringing supervised optometry student care to rural Ghana.

• University of Montreal School of Optometry will launch a mobile teaching clinic providing on-site care to long-term care residents of Pavillon Alfred-Desrochers in Quebec.

• University of Montreal/International Health Unit will strengthen optometry education in underserved francophone countries and expand training programs in Haiti, developed in collaboration with the School of Optometry at the State University of Haiti.

• Vision for the Poor will expand its network of sustainable vision centers in the Philippines while enhancing optometry training.

• Vosh California will establish a Specialty Contact Lens Clinic in Managua, Nicaragua, offering advanced care and student training.

• World Council of Optometry will expand its Optometry Program in Advocacy and Leadership with a new post-graduate track in leadership and policy.

Over the past 22 years, OGS-funded initiatives have helped establish 14 optometry schools, train more than 14,000 eyecare professionals, create over 200 vision centers, and deliver services to more than 15 million people in more than 70 countries.

More information about the 2025 grantees and their projects is available here.