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For over 25 years, LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors* have worked with OneSight to provide quality vision care to more than 9 million people in 41 countries. Together, we help the world see.

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Charitable vision clinics

With an onsite staff providing year-round access to comprehensive eye exams and glasses, OneSight and LensCrafters partner to create sustainable vision centers, empowering students to succeed.

Vision van clinics

LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors give their time at OneSight Vision Clinics, providing free eye exams and prescription glasses to people in need here and abroad.

Sustainable vision centers

With support from LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors, OneSight works with local partners to provide permanent access to affordable eye care and eyewear in underserved communities worldwide.

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What
provides

OneSight helps the world see. Through continued partnerships, volunteer efforts and financial support, OneSight provides comprehensive eye exams, vision care, and customized prescription glasses to people in need throughout the world. OneSight and LensCrafters believe good vision isn???t a luxury, it???s essential to experience a moment.

Seeing is believing

Glasses are the heart of the solution. Through the efforts of OneSight and the help of LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors, patients receive high-quality eyeglasses customized to their prescription, and a new chance to experience every moment more fully.

Continuous eye care

LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors volunteer their time and expertise to train local partners to operate OneSight sustainable vision centers around the world. OneSight has existing sustainable vision centers in The Gambia and Cincinnati, OH, as well as a sustainable initiative in rural China. LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors help equip and empower these centers to make sure the community has permanent access to quality vision care.

Quality vision care for all

Eye exams can be a key step in breaking the cycle of poverty. Whether overseas or here at home, volunteer Independent optometrists at or next to LensCrafters and optical experts from LensCrafters help OneSight by giving their time and passion to provide comprehensive eye exams at Vision Clinics and bring quality vision care to millions in need.

Meeting the worldwide need

Through charitable and sustainable solutions like OneSight Vision Clinics and Vision Centers, LensCrafters is committed to helping OneSight meet the immediate and long-term vision care needs of the 563 million people all over the world still struggling to see.

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Where we volunteer, how we are changing lives

From Indonesia to America, there are LensCrafters associates and doctors on every clinic volunteering their time to help the world see. Roll over the map to experience just a few of our favorite stories.

South Dakota

A great need at home

California

Giving back more than vision

Mexico City

Helping Mexico see

Cincinnati

Students see their future

Atlanta

Focus on kid's vision

New York

Helping NYC to see

Gambia

OneSight expands to West Africa

South Africa

The South Africa clinic

Thailand

A vision comes to life

China

Seeing is learning

South Dakota
EAGLE BUTTE, SOUTH DAKOTA

In 2013, 80 LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors volunteered with OneSight to provide quality vision care to the Cheyenne River Sioux in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. These associates saw firsthand the transformative power of filling a need for comprehensive eye exams and prescription glasses, even here in the United States.

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California
Vision van, Santa Ana, California

Volunteers at the Santa Ana, Ca Vision Van Clinic offered more than good vision to their last clinic patient. Ruth Agatep, LensCrafters GM/clinic coordinator, shares the story of Emanuel Oropeza, Community Day School student: "The techs were wrapping up. When they saw everyone else was gone, they invited Emanuel into the lab to create his lenses. He enjoyed the process so much! His mom was waiting outside. I had her peek into the lab. When Emanuel exited the lab, his mom clapped and cheered for him, saying, 'Hopefully you've inspired him to be a doctor'. Emanuel received more than the gift of sight; he now has a potential career goal!"

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Mexico
Mexico City

The chance to improve lives, one pair of eyes at a time, is what draws volunteers to OneSight. Over five days, outside of Mexico City, LensCrafters and OneSight helped over 2,700 people of all ages get the vision care they needed. Many were elderly folks who???d never had an eye exam. The joy of seeing clearly brought huge smiles. Crys Brown, a LensCrafters optician for over a decade, and an 8-time volunteer, was part of the Cuernavaca clinic team. For Crys, this trip meant more than ever. She got to fulfill her mom???s final wish, and see with her own eyes what a difference accessible vision care makes.

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Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio

Thanks to the OneSight Vision Center at Oyler School in Cincinnati, thousands of public school students and their families no longer have to make the hard choice between basic necessities and vision care. Since its debut in fall of 2012, the vision center has provided quality eye care to more than 30,000 students in Cincinnati. Seeing clearly gives people, especially children, more control over their own lives. This is why sustainable vision care matters.

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Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Around the world, 733 million people suffer from vision loss. Of those, about 563 million can have their sight restored with an eye exam and a pair of glasses. It's that simple. Many of those who suffer are children, who without glasses, can't learn and thrive. That's why LensCrafters and OneSight are committed to bringing sustainable vision to those who need it most. Our recent Atlanta clinic brought together 43 LensCrafters associates and independent doctors who worked tirelessly to help kids get the vision care they've never had.

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New York
New York City, New York

Nearly 40 percent of people in New York City live below the poverty line, resulting in many families having to forego good vision care to purchase groceries and keep the lights on. Using the foundation created by the OneSight Vision Center at Oyler School in Cincinnati, a year-round vision care clinic will open its doors in New York City at PS 188 in Brooklyn's Coney Island in 2014, followed by another clinic in PS 18 in the Bronx. Sustainable clinics like this one are just one of the many examples of OneSight activities that are supported by donations from LensCrafters customers and associates.

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Gambia
The Gambia, West Africa

An incredible need brought OneSight to The Gambia, where there was once only one optometrist to serve 1.8 million people. In 2013, OneSight changed all that when it opened its first sustainable vision center in Farafenni, The Gambia, providing the community access to comprehensive eye exams and affordable glasses. Since its debut, the sustainable vision center's staff has seen almost 3,000 patients with an average of 107 patients seen per week.

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South Africa
Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

For 13 days in October 2013, a team of volunteers helped provide hope and sight to 5,000 South Africans during an OneSight Vision Clinic. In KwaZulu-Natal, there is only one optometrist per 26,000 people. During OneSight's time in South Africa, more than 5,000 South Africans were given access to quality vision care and quality eyewear.

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Thailand
Thailand

Doctor Dana Kindberg has experienced first-hand what sight does for people. Beginning as an associate in a LensCrafters retail store, Dr. Kindberg was inspired to go to optometry school after participating in OneSight Clinics around the world. Later, while volunteering at a Vision Clinic in Thailand, Dr. Kindberg was able to fulfill her mother's last wish: using her glasses to help someone else see. She gave her glasses to Ming, a little girl who needed help seeing in school.

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China
China

In China's rural regions, Stanford University's Rural Education Action Program (REAP) and OneSight are studying how access to prescription glasses can improve academic life for rural Chinese students, fewer than 5 percent of whom will attend college. Dubbed Seeing Is Learning, this collaborative program could have profound implications for China's future.

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Celebrating a 25-year history with onesight

Over 5,000 LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors have given their time to OneSight over the years. Scroll below to see just a few of the milestones they've helped make happen.

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1995
1999
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2007
2010
2011
2012
2013
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2014

1988

LENSCRAFTERS DEBUTS GIFT OF SIGHT

LensCrafters introduces The Gift of Sight program, now known as OneSight, by passing out vouchers for free eyewear in stores across America.

1991

ONESIGHT LAUNCHES FIRST GLOBAL CLINIC

The first global clinic takes place in Costa Rica, where volunteers give 8,600 people the gift of sight.

1993

HOMETOWN DAY CELEBRATED IN STORES

LensCrafters' first Hometown Day, now called One Day, is introduced across all stores, creating the biggest single day of giving back to local communities.

1995

FIRST OFFICIAL VISION VAN HITS THE ROAD

LensCrafters sponsors "Seemore," the first official OneSight Vision Van, which travels from school to school providing free vision care to children.

1999

ONE MILLIONTH PATIENT HELPED

In 1999, a little girl from Washington State named Jessica becomes the 1 millionth patient helped by OneSight.

2004

REGIONAL VISION CLINICS SET UP SHOP

OneSight launches regional clinics in North America to provide quality vision care to schoolchildren.

2007

SIX MILLIONTH PATIENT HELPED

Victory, a monk from Thailand, becomes the 6 millionth patient helped by OneSight at a Global clinic.

2010

LENSCRAFTERS EYEVAN SUPPORTS CLINICS

OneSight introduces EyeVan, a LensCrafters-funded vehicle that travels to regional clinics to manufacture eyewear on site.

2011

8 MILLIONTH PATIENT HELPED

Marokey, a 35-year-old mother of four from Gungur, The Gambia, is the 8 millionth patient helped by OneSight's Global Clinics.

2012

SUSTAINABLE CLINICS OPEN DOORS

OneSight debuts the first sustainable clinic sites at the Oyler School in Cincinnati, OH, and The Gambia in West Africa.

2013

25 YEARS OF VISION CARE WITH LENSCRAFTERS

OneSight honors its 25th year with LensCrafters with a Vision Clinic at the Walking Shield Native American reservation in South Dakota.

2013

NEW RESOURCE CENTER OPENS

LensCrafters lab techs volunteer their time to help open an expanded OneSight Resource Center and Manufacturing Lab in Atlanta, GA.

2014

HELPING NYC SCHOOL CHILDREN SEE

OneSight works with New York City Public Schools to open the first year round Vision Clinic in the city to help serve the 40 percent of families in the school system living below the poverty line.

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EVERYONE DESERVES

TO SEE A BRIGHTER FUTURE

For over 25 years, LensCrafters associates and Independent doctors* have worked with OneSight to provide quality vision care to more than 9 million people in 41 countries. Together, we help the world see.