Who Volunteers With Unite For Sight?

Volunteer With Unite For Sight and Become a Leader of Social Change

Unite For Sight provides an amazing opportunity to make a significant, meaningful, tangible impact in the lives of children and adults worldwide. Volunteers immediately see the joys on people's faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. They see children who are thrilled to receive their first pair of eyeglasses, and they see elderly adults truly grateful for reading glasses so that they can read and sew. These memories last a lifetime.

Volunteers reduce all of the barriers to health care, including financial, transportation, and education barriers. All patients with eye disease are brought to the partner eye clinic for surgery, which is funded by Unite For Sight. In addition to helping the community, volunteers are also 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. Volunteers also have the opportunity to live in another culture and develop leadership and career skills. Unite For Sight provides certificates to volunteers and also awards dedicated, motivated, skilled volunteers with special awards

Anyone Can Volunteer, From Any Country

We believe that anyone can become part of a global solution. Unite For Sight volunteers are 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Those under the age of 18 may participate if they accompany a parent who is an eye doctor.

Volunteers range from undergraduate students to medical students, public health students and professionals, nurses, educators, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists. Non-eye care professionals serve as community-based assistants for local eye doctors. Optometrists and ophthalmologists provide optometric and ophthalmic care for patients while also providing skills transfer for the local eye care professionals.

Unite For Sight's volunteers come from countries throughout the world, including the United States, Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Norway, Israel, Singapore, Japan, India, United Arab Emirates, and Australia. We welcome people from any country to apply.

• Students
  • College/University Students
  • Medical Students
  • Public Health Students
  • Optometry Students
  • Nursing Students
  • Education Students
  • Law Students
  • Business Students
  • Gap Year Students
  • Teenagers (If accompanied by a parent who is an eye doctor)
• Medical Personnel and Public Health Professionals
  • Public Health Professionals
  • Nurses and Physician Assistants
  • Opticians
• Educators and Social Workers
  • Teachers and Educators
  • Social Workers
• Eye Doctors
  • Optometrists
  • Ophthalmologists
  • Ophthalmology Residents
  Others
  • Anthropologists
  • Retired Persons
  • Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
  • Others Interested in Health and Development
• Filmmakers, Photographers, Photo/Film Students

Do I need any previous health experience?

Unite For Sight welcomes volunteers who may have little or no previous health experience. Volunteers receive all necessary training from Unite For Sight so that they are able to assist eye doctors with community eye outreach programs. All volunteers, regardless of their previous level of health experience, are engaged in hands-on clinical involvement and help at the level of their individual level of training and comfort.

Our priority is to ensure that Unite For Sight volunteers make a high impact difference while participating abroad or in their local community. Our research, experience, and evaluation has enabled us to develop a highly successful pre-service training and orientation process that ensures that volunteers are fully prepared to contribute to the success of the Unite For Sight programs.