Unite For Sight's Innovative Model of Volunteering Abroad

  • Volunteers are part of global problem solving and have the thrill of experiencing and contributing to change on the highest level.
  • Volunteers are leaders of social change.
  • With the assistance of volunteers like you, Unite For Sight has restored sight to 15,477 patients and provided eye care to 600,000.

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What Is Unite For Sight's Socially Innovative Volunteer Model?

While creating a committed vanguard of thousands of volunteers worldwide, Unite For Sight challenges students, professionals, educators, and eye doctors, to rethink what it means to eliminate preventable blindness through local capacity building.

Unite For Sight's innovative and entrepreneurial model:

  • Harnesses idealism with practicality and infrastructure
  • Partners with local eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access
  • Engages thousands of non-eye care professionals in direct eye care services that are eliminating blindness worldwide
  • Mobilizes eye care professionals in countries throughout the world to "Unite For Sight", work collaboratively, and exchange skills and best practices across continents
  • Empowers patients and communities to be engaged in preventing and eliminating blindness
  • Connects organizations, eye clinics, universities, the public, and communities, to develop sustainable programs that create permanent change
  • Cultivates leadership, talent, and ideas among its eye clinic partners and among its volunteers
  • Motivates and encourages volunteers to be proactive and entrepreneurial

What Do Volunteers Do?

  • Participate in hands-on clinical service while assisting Ghanaian and Indian eye doctors in rural villages, refugee camps, and slums
  • Local eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers work together to provide community-based screening programs to patients living in extreme poverty
  • Volunteers are immersed in effective, sustainable international health and development programs
  • Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness.

While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.

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Where Can Volunteers Participate?

Unite For Sight's international programs are located in India, Ghana, and Honduras.

Volunteers Create Real, Lasting Change

Ophthalmologist Dr. Rose Speaks About The Importance of Volunteering With Unite For Sight

Volunteer Chiwing "Jessica" Qu Discusses Volunteering With Unite For Sight

Volunteer Abroad

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I was amazed at the amount of preventable and/or treatable causes of eye disease that have gone unchecked here for many years. So many people, not just the elderly, but young children, were permanently blind from diseases that are easily treated in the U.S. Working with the Unite for Sight team on these outreaches in service to these wonderful people of Ghana was the single most rewarding work I've done in my life.
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—Brian Fowler, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Ghana