Annual Review 2012 - Luxottica

56 ANNUAL REview 2012
2012 highlights
Last year OneSight hosted 90 projects across six continents
and volunteers helped more than 200,000 patients.
In addition to Clinics hosted across Australia, India, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and
the United States, OneSight launched several new strategic initiatives.
OneSight supported a project in Chile in partnership with GMO and SOCHIOF to help
those affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Additionally, OneSight is
pioneering the development of sustainable vision care models that will provide access to
affordable, high quality vision care to millions more in need.
Sustainability
Initiatives
The Gambia
In collaboration with Sightsavers International, OneSight has built a permanent
vision center and lab in The Gambia, a small country in West Africa that had one
optometrist to serve 1.8 million people. Today OneSight is serving patients daily and
training local opticians and lab technicians to build sustainable vision care capacity to
serve thousands.
Seeing is Learning Study in China
One of the pillars of sustainability for OneSight is to close the vision care gap for those
living in under resourced and underprivileged communities. OneSight is partnering
with Stanford University’s Rural Education Action Program (REAP) to launch the “Seeing
is Learning” study in China. This partnership will screen and examine 20,000
school-age students to determine the need for glasses. New glasses will be provided
for every child in need. Students will be studied for two years to understand the impact
their glasses make on their school performance. Based on the results of the study, REAP
will advocate for the inclusion of expanded quality vision care in rural China.
School-Based Model
Students who see better, learn better. Yet one in four students has an undiagnosed vision
problem. That’s why OneSight is piloting a new school-based vision care model in one
of the most impoverished schools in the United States. The OneSight Vision Center at
Oyler School is the first self-sustaining school-based vision care program in the U.S.
Located within a school environment, this full-service vision center will provide 3,000
students with access to comprehensive eye exams, glasses, fittings and
adjustments annually. OneSight is working with the American Optometric Association to
evaluate expansion potential of this new model to address the severe gap in vision care
for students in underprivileged communities.