If you are an Optometrist or Dispensing Optician, find out how you can help change lives across Africa.

Vision Aid Overseas works with professional volunteers from the UK and Ireland to help establish sustainable eye care services in five African countries by:

  • Providing training to local eye care workers

  • Establishing Vision Centres where patients can access eye care services and glasses

  • Delivering outreach services in remote and isolated communities

Why volunteer with Vision Aid Overseas?

Vision Aid Overseas exists so that children in Africa who can’t see clearly can learn and get an education, and adults who can’t see clearly can earn to support their families and contribute to their communities. Our professional volunteers are integral to Vision Aid Overseas and help us to achieve our mission to fight poverty by transforming access to eye care and glasses in Africa.

Benefits of Volunteering with Vision Aid Overseas

  • Be part of the solution to transforming access to eye care across Africa
  • Gain interactive CET points on assignment overseas and on training courses
  • Meet like-minded people who want to make a difference
  • Learn about people's lives and the challenges they face
  • Help change lives

 


Volunteering for Vision Aid Overseas has been amazingly rewarding. I have found it a privilege to use skills that can really make a difference and change peoples lives. Margaret Lawrence, Optometrist

Five steps to becoming a Vision Aid Overseas Professional Volunteer  

  1. Attend our next volunteer training course 
  2. Become a member of Vision Aid Overseas
  3. Join the volunteer list (wait is approx. 12 months from joining list) 
  4. Undertake some fundraising
  5. Join us on a two week assignment and start making a difference 

 

Sponsorship target

Your first Assignment Next assignment Role
£1,700

£1,100 (time frames apply)

 Team Members
£800 Deputy Team Leaders
£400 Team Leaders

 

If you would like to find out more about volunteering with Vision Aid Overseas please see our frequently asked questions or email [email protected]. 

 

If I was to give any advice it would be to go for it! You'd be amazed how your small actions can change someone's life for the better. Find out more