Helping others see future possibilities.
Corneal transplants
Eye banking has been in practice for more than a century. Thanks to cornea transplantation approximately 185,000 corneal transplants are performed in 116 countries every year!
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Idaho Lions Vision Clinic
We provided full eye exams to 149 patients during 26 Vision Clinic days and dispensed 289 pairs of eyeglasses to low-income individuals who lack vision insurance and are unable to afford an eye exam and a pair of prescription eyeglasses
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Health Care Assistance
Our surgery assistance fund helps people pay for cataract surgeries, corneal transplants, diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachments, glaucoma, and more. When individuals feel the effects of economic hardship and lack of insurance, we’re able to alleviate some of the burden by providing services free of charge—thanks to the donations of community members.
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Eyeglasses & hearing aid recycling
Making a Global Impact:
Humanitarian medical missions help distribute donated eyeglasses to people in developing countries, often seeing for the first time!
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What your donation provides
Every $50 donated provides an eye exam with a pair of glasses
Every $200 donated provides a hearing aid
Every $1000 donated restores eyesight to someone that suffers from corneal blindness
A growing unmet need
Envision has historically relied upon income from the Eye Bank and small event fundraisers to provide the funding for its assistance programs and humanitarian outreach. Even with our history of careful and conservative financial management, the current revenue is inadequate to either increase our humanitarian outreach or expand our corneal transplants without sacrificing the work of the other.
An enhanced endowment will not only enable Envision to fulfill its mission as a high quality provider of sight and hearing assistance, but will also help to position the organization to achieve its long-term goal of establishing a state-of-the-art eye institute to serve the people of the region.
By establishing this endowment, we will expand critical surgical services and health screenings to meet more of the need in our region while allowing the corneal transplant side of Envision to grow and prosper.
The long-term effect of a significant endowment would be to expand and strengthen both eye bank and humanitarian outreach, thereby touching the lives of many more of those in severe need.
