Volunteering Opportunities
All volunteer information available this year will be posted on this page. If you have a volunteer suggestion or any questions about volunteering with POPS, please contact Nghiem Duong.
The Visionaries is a group of volunteers that help Prevent Blindness Texas carry out their mission to prevent blindness and preserve sight by conducting free vision screenings in and around Austin, TX. Free training is provided to all volunteers in both child and adult vision screenings. Call or email us for more information.
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Contact Gloria Bennett for more information.
Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunities
Unite For Sight supports eye clinics by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. Volunteers work with local ophthalmic nurses, optometrists, and ophthalmologists to support and assist the clinic in outreach programs that reduce barriers to health care, including financial, transportation, and education barriers. With the assistance of volunteers like you, Unite For Sight has restored sight to 19,549 patients and provided eye care to 600,000.
Contact: volunteers@uniteforsight.org (updated: 2/8/09)
International Service Learning
Volunteering aboard for 9 to 14 days. ISL does not offer optometry only teams. They do offer basic Eye examination/refraction and dispense reading and sunglasses working alongside the General Medicine teams. (updated: 3/10/09)