WHO ARE WE?
Vision Aid Overseas is a charity dedicated to helping people in need in developing countries whose lives are blighted by poor eyesight particularly in those cases where spectacles can help. Started in 1985, it works by sending abroad teams of volunteer optometrists and dispensing opticians to set up clinics, screen large numbers of patients and provide the appropriate spectacles where necessary.

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
VAO is the only UK-based charity exclusively committed to dealing with ‘refractive error’. This is a condition where light is not focused correctly on the back of the eye resulting in blurred vision. Spectacles are normally the solution. But, owing to poverty and lack of skilled opticians, spectacles are not available to millions of people in the developing world who desperately need them.

Gosforth Eye Company Campaign
Since November 2006 we have been collecting all your old spectacles and we are delighted to announce that to date we have collect an astonishing 190 pairs!! Your astounding generosity will help people like the little boy above whose photograph clearly shows ‘The Vision Aid Overseas smile’.  Thanks to people like you those in the developing countries are able to see the world in all its glory and we would like to say a big THANK YOU to all that have supported us in our mission.

The Campaign Continues!