Latest News Optical Community Gets Behind World Sight Day in a Big Way By Staff Friday, October 16, 2015 12:24 AM GOLDEN, Colo.—The 2015 World Sight Day is shaping up to be another great success story, with thousands of eyecare professionals, companies, students, staff and patients, in the U.S. and around the world, all contributing to raise funds to help eliminate avoidable blindness and impaired vision. “Close to 1,000 optometric practices, companies and schools, along with their staff and patients, are participating in this year’s World Sight Day Challenge (WSDC) in North America, with fundraising continuing through at least the end of October for some," said Clive Miller, Optometry Giving Sight’s global CEO. “A similar number are participating in Australia, the U.K., Italy, Norway and Singapore. “This has definitely been our most exciting Challenge to date and will greatly assist our efforts to fund sustainable eye and vision care projects in underserved communities throughout the world. Our sincere thanks to all those who have made a donation already and we encourage all those who have yet to do so to visit givingsight.org/donate,” Miller said. The fundraising efforts will continue through Oct. 31.This year’s Coalition members supporting OGS’ World Sight Day Challenge include ABB Optical Group, Alcon, AllAboutVision.com, CooperVision, Essilor, Eyefinity, FYidoctors, Marchon Eyewear, Vision Source, VSP Global and ZeaVision. They will be joined by A&A Optical, Accu-Lens, Acuity Pro Software, Advance Optical, Allergan, Art Optical, Bard Optical, ClearVision Optical, Contamac, DAC Vision, Demandforce, Essilor Canada, Europa, Eye Pros, Eye Recommend, Gateway Professional Network, Good Lite Company, GPLI, Heidelberg Engineering, Hilco, Hi-Tech Products, Jobson Medical Information, Konan Medical, Kosh Ophthalmics, Match, Menicon, Modern Optical, Modo, Nikon, Oasis Medical, Ocuco, Optos, Optovue, OSI, PFO Global, POG Labs, REM Eyewear, RX Optical, Reptile Sun, Ron’s Optical, Signet Armorlite, Slack Incorporated, Smart Vision Labs, SynergEyes, Tech Group, Tura, Valley Contax, Vision Ease, Vision One Credit Union, Vmax Vision, Wave Contact Lens System, Westgroupe, Zeiss Canada and Zyloware, all of whom are participating in the Challenge in some way. In addition to efforts by the Coalition, as reported by VMail, ECPs, optical retailers and dozens of other optical industry companies and organizations held special events on Oct. 8 to raise general awareness and dollars around the cause of undetected refractive error and the needs of so many patients. Social media amplified many of the activities this year. For highlights from some of the thousands of participants who raised funds and awareness of the need for eyecare and eyewear on World Sight Day, click here.