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Donate online and 'the Big Give' will double your donation for Sierra Leone

Your Christmas gift for Sierra Leone this Christmas will help to:

Strengthen three Vision Centres in the Eastern Province; Kenema, Koidu and Kailahun by providing training, regular monitoring and management support to the Vision Centre staff
Support ten Optometry Technicians undertaking eye tests and dispensing glasses
Support the Eastern Province programme to build eye care into existing locally run hospital outreach to bring optometry services to more isolated communities

Vision Aid Overseas to take over from Optometry Giving Sight in the UK

From the end of April 2021, Optometry Giving Sight UK is closing and will be handing over its UK based operations to Vision Aid Overseas.
School Eye Health Update from Sierra Leone

Our ongoing School Eye Health work in Sierra Leone is seeing great results, as so far this year mobile eye clinics have visited another 79 schools.
Vision Aid Overseas joins the Captain Tom 100 challenge

Do it your way from Friday 30 April to Monday 3 May and take on the #CaptainTom100 challenge. Join team VAO today!
School Eye Health Progress in Zambia

Thirty more teachers have been trained to screen the eye health of school children in Kabwe District, in the central province of Zambia. In total 171 teachers have now been trained and they will be conducting screening exercises later this month.