Donate online today and double your donation for Sierra Leone.

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

Eye care for all by 2030

Eye care for all is in sight! All 193 countries of the United Nations General Assembly have unanimously agreed to enshrine eye health as part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Effective Altruism and Vision Aid Overseas

Effective Altruism is a modern-day philosophy or approach on living, looking at how we can use our own individual resources to help others in need, in the most effective way to allow for the biggest impact.
Seeing clearly in Zambia

VAO has been working in partnership with Specsavers to improve access to eye care in Zambia for the past 10 years. We are integrating eye care into primary healthcare, at the community level, and into national school eye health plans.
VAO joins global call to declare a climate emergency

This World Earth Day, April 22nd, Vision Aid Overseas joined the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness in declaring a climate emergency and calling for action on environmentally sustainable practices in the eye health sector.