Sight restoration for remote and underserved communities at Toms Shoes

253 million people worldwide are blind or visually impaired—80% of them don’t have to be. Without local vision centers in place, people in need will either go without care or travel to distant treatment centers—sometimes arriving too late. With local vision centers in place, people in need are able to seek timely, quality care, preventing permanent damage or unnecessary temporary blindness. With their sight restored, individuals can regain independence at home, in the classroom, or in the workplace. 

Since limited access to care is a big part of the problem, our sight-focused Giving Partners seek out remote and underserved communities, delivering cost-effective treatment services through local vision centers that TOMS invests in. So far, TOMS have established more than 30 primary eye care vision centers that have already reached 150,000 people with needed eye care services—and will continue reaching many more far into the future.