Vision Australia and Seeing Eye Dogs

Today 25 people will discover they are losing their vision.

Tomorrow there will be the same distressing news for another 25 people, and again the next day and the next.

Sometimes this news has to be given to the parents of babies and young children and they will struggle to cope with their own shock and grief while trying to understand how they will now have to help their child to cope with a changed future.

Currently there are 300,000 Australians who are blind or have low vision but unfortunately that number is growing every year and will have doubled to 600,000 by 2020.

Vision Australia faces a huge challenge in the next decade as we must double the services available as the demand for our services doubles.

We are the largest and only national provider of blindness and low vision services in Australia and a major innovator and partner throughout the world.

Vision Australia provides free services to Australians of all ages who are blind or have low vision.

Our services include orientation and mobility, seeing eye dogs, children’s services, assistive technology, library services, advocacy, low vision clinics, quality living programs, and employment services.

We work in partnership with every client to help them achieve the possibilities they choose in life.

Where children receive our services we work in partnership with their families so that each child can achieve education and independence.

Help Vision Australia to continue to help more Australians who have lost their sight.