To achieve better lives through better sight by creating and supporting activities that advance good vision and its benefits and offering special help to those who need it most.

Essilor Vision Foundation Golf Classic 2008

Nassau Country Club & the North Shore Country Club in Glen Cove, New York are the sites of the annual golf classic slated for August 25, 2008. This year's honoree is Ed Greene, the Chief Executive Officer of The Vision Council, with more than 30 years of experience in the optical industry.
The golf classic will benefit the children of New York State in helping educate and will offer vision exams and glasses to those kids who need them the most through our Adopt-A-School program.

Sponsorships and commemorative journal ads are available along with golf packages. For additional information, please contact Marina Patino at 214-496-4217 or via email at marina.patino@essilorvisionfoundation.org.

To register and pay, please click here.

Adopt-A-School Program

The Essilor Vision Foundation, based in Dallas, TX, will concentrate its initial efforts on U.S. school children through its Adopt-A-School program.  The program focuses on educating parents about the importance of children's eye health and the need for annual eye exams through a DVD entiled, the "Eyes of a Child".  Teams of volunteers will be formed to work closely with school nurses and other non-profit organizations such as the local Lions Clubs, VSP, and Prevent Blindness just to name a few to help provide eye glasses to those kids who need them the most.  Please take a few minutes to watch the video being shown below.  The Adopt-A-School program will launch this fall for the 2008-2009 school year with pilot teams and then will be expanded as resources allow thoughout the U.S.

Launch in external player

Did you know...?

• 25% of all school children in the U.S. have a vision problem significant enough to affect learning. Vision and Learning, American Foundation for Vision Awareness. June 1, 2002

• 70% of juvenile delinquents have uncorrected vision problems. Harris, Paul - The Prevalence of Visual Conditions in a Population of Juvenile Delinquents Optometric Extension Program

• 74% of illiterate adults fail the vision screening. Pacific University College of Optometry

• 53% of children of families living in poverty have uncorrected vision problems that interfere with reading, writing, and classroom learning. Gillespie, Kathleen - How Vision Impacts Literacy: An Educational Problem that Can Be Solved. Harvard School of Education, 2001