Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has announced the selection of its 2025 grant program recipients. This year, 24 grants totaling almost $1 million have been awarded to 21 organizations for projects that will help eradicate uncorrected refractive error globally. This year’s grantee organizations and projects funded are:

Aden Adde International University

This project will establish a fully equipped eye examination center in Mogadishu, Somalia, providing free exams, affordable glasses and medications, and cataract surgeries.

African Eye Institute Trust

The African Eye Institute Trust will implement the One School at a Time (OSaaT) program to address the urgent need for school-based eye care in South Africa.

Berkeley Vision

This project will launch a comprehensive school-based eye health initiative in Jamshoro district, Sindh province, expanding Berkeley Vision’s global “Every Child Sees” campaign to Pakistan.

Brien Holden Vision Institute

This project will expand low vision services in Pakistan by establishing 4 new clinics, training 15 optometrists, and launching public awareness campaigns to improve access for underserved communities.

Brien Holden Vision Institute

With support from OGS, the Brien Holden Foundation is strengthening Vietnam’s eyecare system by enhancing 2 government-run optometry schools—Hanoi Medical University and Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine.

Canadian Vision Care

This project will strengthen optometry education and expand access to vision care in Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago by equipping university clinics with essential diagnostic tools, supporting faculty development, and facilitating student-led outreach to underserved communities.

Canadian Vision Care

This project will strengthen the Eye Train initiative in the Philippines by enhancing its capacity to deliver high-volume, high-quality eye care and deepening clinical training for Filipino and Canadian optometry students.

Charis Vision and Health Mission

This grant will be used to strengthen optometry education and service delivery in Cross River State, Nigeria.

Envision EyeCare for All

This grant will be used by Envision EyeCare for All to expand and strengthen its mobile vision care initiative designed to deliver comprehensive eye health services to marginalized, underserved, and transient populations across rural Oregon.

Healing California

This project will expand Healing California’s mobile vision care services across the state, providing free eye exams and prescription glasses to unhoused and underserved individuals facing systemic barriers to care.

Light for the World International

This project will advance pediatric optometry training in Mozambique as part of a 10-year strategy under the “1, 2, 3, I Can See!” program to build sustainable child eye care within the public health system.

Mission for Vision

This project will establish a permanent Vision Centre in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, delivering comprehensive primary eye care to marginalized communities and helping eliminate preventable blindness.

Nepal Optometry Students’ Society

This project will establish Nepal’s first fully equipped optical laboratory for optometry students, bridging a critical gap in practical training and empowering future eyecare professionals with hands-on experience in optics and dispensing.

OPTOGLOBE

This project will launch the pilot phase of “Equipping the Future,” a global initiative by OPTOGLOBE that provides essential optical instruments to optometry students in underserved regions.

Queen’s University Belfast

This project will support the foundational phase of revising Zanzibar’s National Eye Care Plan, formally integrating optometry and low vision services into the public health system.

See Better. Learn Better Jamaica Ltd.

This project will expand See Better Learn Better Jamaica’s school-based vision care initiative across Westmoreland and Hanover, delivering essential eye exams, referrals, and eyeglasses to thousands of children while training optometrists from the University of the West Indies and Indiana University in pediatric outreach.

Special Olympics

Special Olympics International will use this grant to expand its Opening Eyes program to improve vision care access for individuals who have intellectual disabilities across Ghana, the United States, and Latin America.

University of Cape Coast

This project will launch Opto-SCOPE, a mobile optometric care initiative that provides essential eye services to underserved rural communities in Ghana’s Central Region through the country’s Community-based Health Planning Services compounds.

University of Montreal School of Optometry

The grant will be used to launch a mobile optometry teaching clinic that will provide on-site eye care to residents of Pavillon Alfred-Desrochers, a long-term care facility affiliated with the university’s Institute of Geriatrics.

University of Montreal/International Health Unit

This project will establish and strengthen optometry education in underserved francophone countries by addressing the shortage of trained eyecare professionals and improving access to refractive services.

University of Montreal/International Health Unit

Developed in collaboration with the School of Optometry at the State University of Haiti (EOH), the project addresses the critical shortage of qualified visual health providers and the treatment of refractive errors in Haiti.

Vision for the Poor

This project will expand Vision for the Poor’s network of sustainable vision centers across the Philippines, improving access to affordable eye care in underserved communities while strengthening optometry education.

VOSH California

This project will establish a Specialty Contact Lens Clinic within the Visionary Clinic in Managua, Nicaragua, expanding access to advanced eye care for underserved patients and offering hands-on training to optometry students from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (a program established in part by funding from OGS).

World Council of Optometry

This project will expand the World Council of Optometry’s Optometry Program in Advocacy and Leadership (OPAL) by introducing a new post-graduate track with advanced seminars and mentorship, deepening its global impact.

More information about these projects is available here, including program objectives, expected outcomes, and sustainability measures.