Start a Chapter of Unite For Sight
University Chapters (Undergraduate, Public Health, Optometry, and Medical Students)
Unite For Sight's university chapters provide vision screenings, educate children and adults about eye health and blindness prevention, and encourage the medically underserved to register for free health coverage so that they can receive complete eye exams by a doctor. Chapters are also engaged in eliminating preventable blindness globally through eyeglass drives and fundraising efforts. 100% of their fundraising efforts provide sight-restoring surgeries to patients living in extreme poverty in Africa and Asia.
High School Chapters
Unite For Sight's high school chapters focus on eliminating preventable blindness through eye health education programs, eyeglass drives, and raising funds to sponsor sight-restoring eye care in developing countries.
Elementary and Middle School Eye Clubs
Unite For Sight's K-8 clubs are engaged in eliminating preventable blindness globally. They collect eyeglasses that are prescribed by eye clinics in Africa and Asia. They also fundraise, and 100% of their fundraising efforts provide sight-restoring surgeries to patients living in extreme poverty in villages and refugee camps in Africa and Asia.
How do I start a chapter of Unite For Sight?
- Submit an application to start a chapter
- If your application is approved, Unite For Sight will contact you, schedule a phone conversation with you, and work with you to establish a chapter of Unite For Sight
- Recruit volunteers. All volunteers must complete basic orientation and training, including the Unite For Sight's Online Eye Health Course, and sign the Unite For Sight Volunteer Code of Conduct.
- Assign an optometrist or ophthalmologist as the chapter's advisor.
- To obtain permission to establish a chapter and to use Unite For Sight's name, chapters must sign a Chapter Charter and adhere to Unite For Sight's Chapter Coordinator Manual.
- Obtain vision screening chart
- Collaborate with community centers (soup kitchens, clinics, homeless shelters, schools, preschools) so that you can hold vision screenings for the medically underserved.
- Begin eyeglass drive and fundraising events.
Unite For Sight chapters are established only after an individual or group first applies to start a chapter, works with Unite For Sight to establish the chapter, and after the officers and advisor sign the chapter charter. The Unite For Sight name, logo and materials are protected by copyright and trademark laws worldwide. The use by unapproved groups of the Unite For Sight name, logo and materials constitutes the infringement of our trademarks and copyrights, which carries the potential for serious legal consequences. Licenses to those important intellectual properties are available only to groups that comply with our organization's legitimate and appropriate requirements.
