$6 Eyeglasses for the Poor

India: 77,139 pairs of glasses sold Over the course of 2012 VisionSpring determined that our mobile optical stores, while effective in reaching the BoP consumer living in remote and rural regions of India, have proven to be unsustainable in isolation. In response, we have integrated the majority of our mobile optical...

Dear Friend, Over the last few years we have enlisted your support to help us sell our one millionth pair of glasses, and thanks to the generosity of donors like you, we have now sold more than 1,073,000 pairs.  Our glasses are being worn by individuals in El Salvador, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Uganda,...

Dear Friend, In May, VisionSpring was thrilled to announce the sale of our 1,000,000th pair of eyeglasses. Each pair enables someone in the developing world to realize their full potential.  With the sale of one million glasses we have created over $216,000,000 in economic impact– but this is just the beginning....

VisionSpring sold 30,621 pairs of glasses between January – March 2012. Of those, 16,957 were sold in India, 8,384 were sold in El Salvador, and 5,280 were sold through our Global Partnerships. We expect to sell our 1,000,000th pair by early June, resulting in $216 million created in economic impact. In late 2011,...

VisionSpring has established a solid distribution channel for delivering eyeglasses to low-income people in rural India where 75% of the country’s population lives –the vast majority of whom are underserved. VisionSpring utilizes retrofitted vans as mobile optical stores managed by a team with diverse expertise...