Help children see clearly this Giving Day
Help the Vision Bus Aotearoa bring fully funded eye care to children in schools who need it most.
$100,517
raised of $90,000 goal
Thanks to 436 supporters
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Thanks to 436 supporters
About the Vision Bus Aotearoa
Clear vision is something most of us take for granted. But for many school children across the country, the blurry world they see every day is simply the only world they have ever known. Without an eye test, there is no way to know anything is wrong.
Vision Bus Aotearoa changes that, visiting low-decile schools across Auckland to provide fully funded, comprehensive eye examinations, bringing care directly to children who need it.
With gratitude to our matching donors, Helen and Barbara Blake, and the Buchanan Charitable Foundation for making donations go further. The matched funding may have ended, but you can still support the Vision Bus. Every dollar goes directly to the Vision Bus team.
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Helping school kids to see
One in five children has a treatable vision problem – and most of them have no idea. Their world has always looked this way. In one year alone, the vision bus visited 30 schools, conducted 800 eye tests and dispensed 560 pairs of glasses.
When a child puts on glasses for the first time, the change is immediate: a whiteboard comes into focus, a book becomes readable, a face across the room becomes clear. For many tamariki, it is the first time they have understood what everyone else has always been able to see.
Training our Optometrists
Vision Bus Aotearoa is not just vital for eye care, it’s vital for education. This is not only true for the children in the communities we serve, but also for our optometry students being trained. As well as invaluable hands-on experience, it exposes them to the realities of health inequity and challenges them to think beyond the clinic.
Confronting inequity
The Vision Bus team is also finding children with amblyopia, eye injuries and conditions such as keratoconus - a serious, progressive eye disease that is more common among Māori and Pacific children and can lead to permanent vision loss if left untreated.
For too many tamariki, the distance between them and the care they need is simply too great to cross alone. Which is why we bring the care they need directly to them.
Alumni Clubs are jumping on board!
Check out the fundraising efforts of our Alumni Clubs.
Thanks to our supporters
James jobbins
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“I too suffered with poor vision at primary school and have needed to wear glasses all my life. So a very good cause to donate for. Jim Jobbins.”
Anonymous
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Richard Swan
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“It has been a busy time for me, so I'm sorry I am late for donating.”
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Bernadette How
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Xinrui Wen
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Bea Newton
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“A great initiative”