Volunteer Teams
Unite For Sight Volunteer Teams work with partner eye clinics to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness in Africa and Asia. Internationally, Unite For Sight's volunteers range from students, nurses, and public health professionals to optometrists and ophthalmologists. The volunteers serve as interns at eye clinics. The eye clinic's eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly participate on community-based screening programs. The clinic's eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Unite For Sight helps to fund the surgeries for those patients unable to afford eye care.
This partnership between Unite For Sight volunteers and eye clinics enables sustainable programs while simultaneously reducing the barriers to health care, including financial, transportation, and education hindrances. Unite For Sight's model also reduces costs and expands the ability of all people to "Unite For Sight" and help in the fight against blindness.
Local Volunteers Improve Eye Health In Their Own Communities, at the Grassroots Level
Unite For Sight collaborates with universities and communities to provide health services to the medically underserved and uninsured. Unite For Sight volunteers engage in service-based learning, community-based research, and cultural and emotional literacy.
With 4,000 volunteers in 90 chapters established at universities worldwide, Unite For Sight has volunteers on three continents who serve as eye health educators in their local communities.
Unite For Sight is a nonprofit organization working worldwide in the following locations:
North America Chapters 2009-2010 Academic Year
- Boston University
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Brigham Young University
- Cal State University of Northridge
- Carnegie Mellon University
- College of William and Mary
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Harvard University
- Indiana University at Bloomington
- Inglemoor High School
- Ithaca College
- Loyola University
- McMaster University
- Mount Holyoke College
- New York Medical College
- New York University School of Medicine
- NYIT
- Ohio State
- Penn State University
- Princeton University
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Rutgers University
- Saint Louis University
- The Charter School of Wilmington
- UC Davis
- University of Alberta
- University of Arizona
- University of British Columbia
- University of California at San Diego
- University of California Santa Barbara
- University of Delaware
- University of Florida
- University of IL, Chicago
- University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign
- University of Iowa
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Tennessee
- University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Western Ontario
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest University
- Western Kentucky University
- Yale University
- York University
Chapters in Africa, Asia, and Latin America 2009-2010 Academic Year
Chapter Locations Added When Chapter Charters Are Received in September/October