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Give Sight project in Tanzania
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together to raise A$20,000 for Guide Dogs SA/NT
Volunteers from our stores in the Nordics travelled to
by contributing a percentage of glasses sales and
Tanzania to provide 19,700 pairs of glasses donated
arranging a fundraising ball. Our donation is paying
by customers to people in need. Since the Give Sight
for guide dog puppy Essi to be trained and matched
initiative began in 2010, our teams have supported
the development of eyecare in the country by
running eye camps in remote areas, conducting sight
with a customer in the state.
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The Fred Hollows Foundation. The charity aims to
quality of life of thousands of people.
ensure high-quality, affordable eye care is accessible
to all, and trains eye doctors, nurses and health
We will continue to support the project and
workers to create a sustainable system of care in
encourage even more store teams to get involved
The team at our store in Cardiff, Wales, don novelty glasses to fundraise for Comic Relief.
Through our community programme, stores across
Australia and New Zealand donated A$422,000 to
tests and prescribing recycled glasses, to improve the
and raise awareness of sight loss and eye conditions.
Similarly, stores across South Australia worked
underprivileged communities.
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Through The Fred Hollows Foundation, we supported
the Lions Outback Vision Van, a mobile eye-health
clinic that provides comprehensive ophthalmology
OUR PROGRESS
Across all our markets, we are involved in a vast
number of activities to raise money for local, regional
and national charities, helping to improve the lives of
care for people living in remote locations across
Western Australia. Our donations enabled the
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those less fortunate than ourselves.
Here are just some of the highlights from 2017/18:
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The UK & the Republic of Ireland
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Our stores and support offices raised more than
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7,200 pairs of unwanted glasses were collected by
Hospital Association, which supports patients and
International, which works to eliminate preventable families attending the Red Cross War Memorial
and reversible blindness. Children’s Hospital.
Our stores supported a Red Cross campaign in
clinic to carry out more than 11,400 consultations,
almost 600 operations and dispense 7,250 glasses.
€6,100 was raised for ONCE, a charity working to
in collaboration with the Royal National Institute of
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Our annual Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition
raised more than £120,000 for anti-bullying
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Visually Impaired, wo produce a State of the Nation
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train refractionists and technicians working on the
Vietnam Child Eye Care project.
We worked with the Swedish Association of the
Eye Health Report. Supply chain
Our support office raised SEK 50,000 for Ronald •
McDonald House Charities.
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Norway
Each store supported one local cause, raising a total •
and distribution sites engaged in multiple fundraising
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Denmark
Louis Nielsen embarked on a new partnership with
the Danish Association of the Blind, producing a
We embarked on a new partnership with the National State of the Nation Eye Health Report.
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Our stores and support offices collectively raised
£58,000 for 38 worthy causes.
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held an all-team ‘giving back to the community’
We supported the Norwegian Association of the Blind
event, working with the Salvation Army to spend
through the provision of free sight tests to senior citizens.
Australia & New Zealand
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Our stores in Western Australia raised A$30,000
Our teams volunteered a total of 1,400 hours to
support community initiatives. In Hong Kong, we
NOK 144,454 for various local causes.
of €150,000 for 133 charities.
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Our global supply chain teams and manufacturing
activities for their chosen organisations, raising
about the impact of diabetes on eye health. children’s charity Kidscape.
time with local elderly people.
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We participated in various local transformation
projects, such as litter clearing and gardening.
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We donated obsolete frames for glazing and
Our stores raised more than DKK 74,479 for for the Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation by distribution to Vision Aid Overseas and worked with
their HolmPatrick Cup golf tournament and raising international charities, including Red Cross Youth and donating a percentage of glasses sales and Orbis International in support of eyecare projects in
awareness of eye health. ACT Alliance. organising a state-wide fundraiser. developing countries.
Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI), supporting
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We donated €50,000 to Diabetes Fonds, which has
the charity to organise a campaign to raise awareness
Blind People (RNIB) and met our £100,000 pledge
target to fund sight-loss advisors around the UK.
Sweden
to sight topics. We also worked in partnership with
poverty and social injustice.
We published a State of the Nation