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Empowering women in Rio’s favelas to become Vision Ambassadors
In 2015, Essilor’s 2.5 New Vision Generation launched its Vision Ambassador program in China, India and Brazil. This inclusive business model has now been adapted to help people in the favelas of Rio...
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Essilor joins Business Call to Action
Inclusive business is good for business and good for development – this is the core belief of Business Call to Action, a multilateral alliance of global corporations, that Essilor has just joined with...
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Vision Care at Your Fingertips
With more mobile devices in the world than number of people, huge swathes of the global population now have access to services previously out of their reach. From rural India to the favelas of Rio,...
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Partnering to help Chinese school children in the fight against myopia
In a country where an expected 700 million people will be myopic by 2020, Essilor Vision Foundation China is accelerating its fight against poor vision through both existing and new partnerships that...
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Meeting Vision Ambassadors in Timor Island, Indonesia
Even with the accolade of “paradise on earth” Timor Island in Indonesia is just one of the many remote locations of the world that suffer from a lack of primary vision care providers. We met four...
View ArticleImproving access to vision care through inclusive business models
Launched in 2013, Essilor’s inclusive business arm 2.5 New Vision Generation (2.5 NVG) provides vision care to underserved populations where people do not have access to conventional distribution...
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Meeting Vision Ambassadors in Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast is among Africa’s most prosperous nations, but it still suffers from many disparities, in particular between rural and urban areas. We spoke to some Vision Ambassadors who joined the 2.5...
View ArticleTransforming lives through better vision in rural China
Meet our Vision Ambassadors in Anhui Province, Eastern China, and learn how they are improving the lives of their local communities through better vision. 340 million Chinese people have uncorrected...
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A look at the Vision Ambassadors in Kenya
Access to eye care shouldn’t be taken for granted especially when 90% of the world’s 2.5 billion people who suffer from uncorrected vision live in developing nations. This is why in 2013 Essilor...
View ArticleImproving lives and livelihoods in Kenya
With over 5,000 primary eye care providers trained in China, India, South East Asia and Africa, we have considerably scaled up our efforts to increase awareness and access to vision correction in Base...
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