Press Release: Celebrating 15 Impactful Years

RestoringVision Celebrates 15 Years of Transforming the Lives of People in Need Through the Gift of Sight  SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA: RestoringVision, an optical 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing new reading glasses to people in need around the world, celebrates its 15-year anniversary on October 2. Through their extensive network of non-profit partners, corporate sponsors, […]

Jul-Aug Newsletter: Thank YOU for 15 Impactful Years

Dear Partners and Friends, Together we’re making great strides in improving vision care for the world’s most impoverished. Our common cause, the global problem of vision impairment, is continuing to gain awareness. In this newsletter, we highlight a new study that demonstrates the impact that reading glasses have on the lives of tea pickers in […]

Groundbreaking Study Shows Impact of Reading Glasses

According to new research, providing glasses to workers can increase their productivity by nearly 32%. The study, called Productivity Study of Presbyopia Elimination in Rural-dwellers, or PROSPER, was conducted with tea pickers living in India over the course of eleven weeks. All participants were diagnosed with farsightedness, or “unaided near visual acuity,” a condition that can […]

May-Jun Newsletter: Thank YOU For Making A Difference!

Dear Partners and Friends, Over the past 15 years, RestoringVision has been able to bring clear vision to more than 10 million people in impoverished communities across the world. As you know, this requires an all-hands-on-deck approach. We wouldn’t have been able to achieve this without you, our partners, who take glasses to the field […]

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The New York Times Publishes an Article on the Global Need for Eyeglasses

“It’s the biggest health crisis you’ve never heard of. Doctors, philanthropists and companies are trying to solve it.” We are thrilled to share that The New York Times published an article about the global need for eyeglasses on the front page of the Sunday edition issued on May 6, 2018.  RestoringVision is proud to be […]

Mar-Apr Newsletter: Thank You for Giving the Gift of Sight!

MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER Dear Partners and Friends, Spring has sprung and many of you are making plans for your summer mission trips. We are grateful to you for adding glasses to the work you do. Thanks to our community of partners, we have gathered tips to help make your mission trips more successful. Those […]

Jan-Feb Newsletter: 10 Million Lives Transformed Thanks to YOU!

MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER Dear Partners and Friends, I’m thrilled to announce that last month we passed 10 million people helped since we began in 2003. That’s a major milestone in our “moon shot” goal of helping 20 million people by the end of 2020. Of course, we couldn’t have done it without you—our partners, sponsors, […]

Press Release: Celebrating a 10M Milestone with the Optical Industry

RestoringVision Marks Distribution of 10M Glasses to People in Need SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (March 5)—The non-profit organization dedicated to providing reading glasses to people in need around the world, RestoringVision, is celebrating its biggest milestone— having helped over 10M people worldwide see and live better. Founded 15 years ago by Mark Sachs—whose basement operations for […]

Announcing our Biggest Milestone: 10M People Helped!

We are thrilled to announce that we have reached our biggest milestone having helped over 10 million people around the world see and live better! A BIG THANK YOU to: –Our Partners in the field who take glasses overseas and put them on the faces of people who need them. –Our Sponsors and Donors who […]