RestoringVision

📣 Big news! We are excited to announce that RestoringVision has been awarded a $4 million grant from Founders Pledge to restore sight to 2.5 million people with presbyopia in India and Nigeria. This investment will enable us to implement three large-scale initiatives with our partners aimed at increasing income potential, alleviating poverty, and fostering sustained impact by increasing access to vision screening and reading glasses.    🎉 We are thrilled to collaborate with the Government of Nigeria's National Eye Health Programme, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc., Christian Health Association Of Nigeria, and other partners in Nigeria as well as with SUPREME TASK INDIA to scale up our presbyopia programs.    👓 This transformative grant will propel us to reach millions more people with the gift of #clearsight and fosters a broader global community of changemakers dedicated to creating a world where everyone who needs glasses has them.   🌐 Together, we are taking a significant step towards solving the global vision crisis. Thank you Founders Pledge and all our amazing partners!   Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/e6vnsdjD #vision #eyehealth #visioncare #clearvisionforall #partnerships #globalhealth #catalyticfunding

🎉 We are thrilled to share that our CEO, Pelin Munis, Ph.D., is the latest guest on The Optical Journal's podcast, hosted by Daniel Feldman! 💡 In this episode, Pelin Munis, Ph.D. shares her inspiring journey to becoming the leader of RestoringVision. She dives deep into the global vision crisis, highlighting why solving presbyopia is not only achievable but also one of the most impactful and cost-effective solutions we can implement at scale. She also shares some heartwarming stories of people who have been impacted by our work. 🙏 Thank you, Daniel Feldman, for this opportunity, and for hosting this engaging conversation! To hear more, tune in to the episode here: https://bit.ly/3SHWMTc

���✨ At RestoringVision, we are fiercely committed to advancing equity for the 1 billion people worldwide with vision impairment, 80% of whom need only reading glasses to see clearly again. Our mission goes beyond providing glasses; it's about restoring hope, dignity, and independence. Imagine being unable to see well enough to perform daily tasks, work efficiently, or even recognize loved ones' faces. For millions, this is a harsh reality due to the lack of access to basic vision care. 🌎 Through our global programs, we are changing this narrative. By distributing glasses to those in need, we transform lives through renewed confidence, independence, and income gains. Each pair of glasses empowers individuals to read, work, and engage with their communities, opening doors to education, economic opportunities, and an improved quality of life. Thank you to our partners, donors, and supporters who make this possible. Together, we are making a world of difference, one pair of glasses at a time. 💙🙌

🎉 Congratulations Shaun Starkey on your well-deserved promotion to Vice President of Operations at RestoringVision! Shaun’s expertise has been instrumental in building a world-class operation that scales our impact, by delivering millions of pairs of eyeglasses where they’re needed most. 🌍👓 Last year, Shaun and his team helped transform the lives of almost 4.3 million people, improving their ability to see clearly, and leading to gains in confidence, independence, and income. Thank you Shaun Starkey! #ClearSight #LifeChanging #GlobalImpact #Vision #Leadership #Operations #Logistics

💪 When we work together, we can solve the global vision crisis! 🙏 Thank you Bayer Foundation for supporting RestoringVision, Healthy Entrepreneurs and Results for Development on our innovative Reading Glasses Initiative in #Uganda. This pilot program to solve presbyopia in impoverished rural communities produced incredible results.  A 60 Decibels impact assessment found that 94% of customers who purchased the affordable glasses available through the program reported a significant improvement in their quality of life. Ugandans who purchased the glasses also reported remarkable increases in confidence, independence, productivity, and income. #MillionLivesCollective #clearvision #presbyopia #impact  Read more below 👇

👓 When vision is restored, lives can be reimagined.     Our CEO Pelin Munis, Ph.D. with RestoringVision’s VP of Programs & Impact Mark Lorey and Latin America Program Manager Gerardo Medina experienced this firsthand during a recent visit to Xonacatlán, Mexico. They attended a vision screening and glasses delivery event organized by our long-time partner SNDIF, the Mexican government’s institution for social assistance. The event was part of an ongoing program to bring vision services to the most vulnerable groups in the municipality, to help improve their living conditions. Xonacatlán is one of the most impoverished areas of Mexico with an average annual salary of US$2,800.     For the past six years, RestoringVision has partnered with SNDIF to bring vision screenings and reading glasses to people in some of the most marginalized communities.    To date, SNDIF has delivered over 730,000 eyeglasses from RestoringVision to the people they serve across all 32 states of Mexico.      Thank you SNDIF! We are incredibly proud of our partnership and the impact that we are making together.     

Thioro Ndoye, our Manager of Programs and Monitoring, attended the first VNR lab focused on eye health at the United Nations. At RestoringVision, we believe in the power of collaboration to advance global health. As a civil society organization and proud member of the Friends of Vision Secretariat, we extend our heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to the countries that are including eye health in their VNRs. These efforts are crucial in giving eye health the prominence it deserves and advancing progress towards achieving the SDGs. Together, we can make a difference. #visionforall #eyehealth #sdgs

RestoringVision had a faboulous 2nd day at the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) #20230InSightLive conference in Mexico. RestoringVision Program Manager, Latin America and the Caribbean, Gerardo Medina was a panelist at the session, "How Can Eye Health Advance Healthy Ageing?" In this session, we emphasized the crucial role of vision in healthy ageing and the importance of focusing on older populations to advance the 2030 in Sight agenda. RestoringVision partner in Peru Dr. Medina Edgar also spoke at the session "The Skills for Systems Leadership". This interactive session drew on diverse case studies to explore the critical leadership skills needed to drive systemic change. The day ended with closing statements from International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) leadership and was followed by a wonderful mariachi band! Truly a fantastic experience and wonderful opportunity.

Yesterday marked the first day of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) #2030InSightLive Conference in Mexico. RestoringVision CEO Pelin Munis, Ph.D., chaired an informative and insightful session titled "Scaling Up Refractive Error Services." We were honored to have Moises Sifren, Sumrana Yasmin, Cony Palos, and Jacqueline Grove join us. Our panel of global experts provided an in-depth exploration of the global vision crisis, identifying key drivers and presenting scalable, cost-effective solutions with high impact. Participants also gained insights into opportunities to accelerate progress towards the WHO SPECS 2030 goals, aiming to increase refractive error coverage by 40-percentage points. A BIG thank you to everyone who joined us live! #IAPB2024 #VisionForAll

We are so proud to have convened the session "Solving Presbyopia at Scale: Accelerating Achievement of Global Refractive Error Goals,” to shine a spotlight on this naturally occurring eye condition that makes up more than 80% of the global vision crisis. As part of the IAPB 2030 INSIGHT LIVE conference, global leaders in eye health highlighted the presbyopia challenge and presented innovative models for addressing it at scale. It was a session filled with valuable insights and perspectives. RestoringVision CEO Pelin Munis, Ph.D. was joined by RestoringVision Vice President of Global Programs and Impact Mark Lorey, Dr. Stuart Keel, Technical Officer, Vision and Eye Care, World Health Organization, Dr. Andrew Bastawrous, Founder and CEO, Peek Vision and Professor of Global Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Dr Oteri Eme Okolo MBBS, MSc (PHEC) FMCOphth, FWACS, Abigail Steinberg, Executive Director, Eyeglasses Initiative, Livelihood Impact Fund. We are grateful for their insights and the innovative approaches they shared. Thanks to all who joined. Join us today at 2:30 pm for a live session on Scaling Up Refractive Error Services. Kicking off the session, RestoringVision CEO Pelin Munis, Ph.D. Munis will deliver a ten-minute overview, setting the stage for an insightful discussion. #GlobalVision #RestoringVision #PresbyopiaSolutions #VisionForAll