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Help Deliver Vision to Peru and Guatemala - AMIGOS Eyecare
This August, two teams of optometry students from Pacific University will be traveling to Zapallal, Peru and Ixcan, Guatemala with AMIGOS Eyecare, a student-led nonprofit affiliated with VOSH international. Our mission is to provide free, quality eye care to underserved communities around the world.

On these upcoming trips, we'll be providing full eye exams, fitting patients with glasses, and partnering with local ophthalmologists to establish sustainable care connections.

While we are fortunate to receive donated glasses and diagnostic tools, the costs of airfare, lodging, meals, and medical supplies add up quickly - especially with two simultaneous international service trips. As full-time student, we're relying on fundraising to help make these missions possible.

Every donation, no matter the size, will go directly toward helping us deliver critical eye care to communities with limited access.

To learn more about our work, please visit amigoseyecare.org. Thank you so much for your support and generosity!
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Claudia Solomon is fundraising
AMIGOS (sVOSH) Eye Care Service Trip - Vietnam 2025
We are a group of optometry students at Pacific University who have been highly involved with AMIGOS Eye Care, a 501(c)(3) non-profit student-led organization at Pacific University in affiliation with VOSH International. Established in 1975, our mission was, and still is, to provide vision and medical eye care to underserved populations locally and abroad. It has been an incredibly rewarding and humbling clinical experience. AMIGOS Eye Care is one of the most successful student chapters in North America and completes eight trips a year globally and locally. Since its inception, we have served over 140,000 people worldwide.

This coming March, AMIGOS Eye Care will be working with Hanoi Medical University (HMU) to provide eye care to locals in northern Vietnam. We will be visiting a number of schools to conduct vision screenings for over 1,000 students. Through these screenings, we aim to address and treat any visual concerns that may impact a child's development and/or learning abilities. It is crucial to screen children for any visual impairments as early as possible to ensure a brighter future for the youth. Our team will also be collaborating with the medical students at HMU to promote cross-cultural, interdisciplinary learning.

A gift of any amount will help cover expenses related to travel, lodging, food, and equipment for our team of dedicated optometry students. Providing vision care for an underserved population is a very fulfilling endeavor and the gratitude shown by the people in need goes much beyond words. We thank you kindly for your consideration and appreciate your contribution to our efforts.

If you would like to find out more about our organization please visit the AMIGOS Eye Care SVOSH Chapter website at http://amigoseyecare.org/.

A tax-deductible receipt can be sent after donation upon request.

Meet our Team!

3rd year students: Amber Bui, Claudia Solomon, Kallista Ashton, Khanh Le, Kylee Yamashita, Troy Neilson

2nd year student: Ruth Ma

1st year student: Brittney Phung

Doctors (not pictured): Drs. Littlefield, Edmonds, and Lynch
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Skylar Riley is fundraising
AMIGOS Eye Care Service Trip to Costa Rica: Winter 2024
AMIGOS Eye Care is a non-profit student-led organization at Pacific University College of Optometry that has been operating since 1975 and has been in affiliation with VOSH International since 2006. Our primary goal is to provide free eye care to underprivileged nations around the world by coordinating missions to places with little access to health care.

This December, AMIGOS Eye Care will be working with the Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation (Fundación Humanitaria Costarricense). This service trip will be the 13th mission sending Amigos members to serve communities in Costa Rica and our fourth time working with CRHF since 2019. A team of 7 optometry students, 7 doctors, and 5 volunteers will be serving the community of La Carpio in San Jose, comprised of over 35,000 Nicaraguan refugees that have been displaced due to civil war, natural disasters, and poverty that resulted in severe food scarcity. We are estimating seeing approximately 600-700 patients, providing them with complete eye health exams and glasses.

There are many expenses involved with organizing and realizing our international eye care mission trip. These expenses include travel, lodging, food, and equipment necessary for providing care to underserved communities. However, as the majority of our team members are students, the costs associated with airplane travel, in-country transportation, meals, and hotel fees are still substantial.

Various organizations and individuals such as yourself have been very gracious in donating used eyeglasses and diagnostic equipment. Your generous donation to our campaign will help us to offset those costs for our students to help make an impact in the La Carpio community that otherwise has little access to eye care.

We greatly appreciate your consideration in donating any amount that you are capable of giving. Providing vision care for an underserved population is a very fulfilling endeavor and the gratitude shown by the people in need goes much beyond words.

If you would like to find out more about our trip please visit the AMIGOS Eye Care SVOSH Chapter website at http://amigoseyecare.org/.

A tax-deductible receipt can be sent after donation upon request.

Meet our team!

Third-year members - Skylar Riley, Charles Mitchell, Ethan Orihuela and Kameron Piper

Second-year members - Allison Wilkes, Kalica Kohner and Marissa Callahan
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Claudia Solomon is fundraising
AMIGOS Eye Care Service Trips - Guatemala and Belize (2024)
(not pictured: Allison Wilkes, Kalica Kohner, and Maya Jump)

We are a group of optometry students at Pacific University who have been highly involved with AMIGOS Eye Care, a 501(c)(3) non-profit student-led organization at Pacific University in affiliation with VOSH International. Established in 1975, our mission was, and still is, to provide vision and medical eye care to underserved populations locally and abroad. It has been an incredibly rewarding and humbling clinical experience. AMIGOS Eye Care is one of the most successful student chapters in North America and completes eight trips a year globally and locally. Since its inception, we have served over 140,000 people worldwide.

This August, AMIGOS Eye Care will be working with Enfoque Ixcán and Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI) to provide comprehensive eye exams to those in Guatemala and Belize, respectively. We will be serving populations that have little to no access to eye care, and are estimating seeing approximately 1,000 patients. We will be providing individuals with prescription glasses and sunglasses, and make any necessary referrals.

A gift of any amount will help cover expenses related to travel, lodging, food, and equipment for our team of dedicated optometry students. Providing vision care for an underserved population is a very fulfilling endeavor and the gratitude shown by the people in need goes much beyond words. We thank you kindly for your consideration and appreciate your contribution to our efforts.

If you would like to find out more about our organization please visit the AMIGOS Eye Care SVOSH Chapter website at http://amigoseyecare.org/.

A tax-deductible receipt can be sent after donation upon request.

Meet our team!

Third-year members - Alexa Wong, Allen Li, Amber Bui, Chandler Kauffman, Claire Owen, Claudia Solomon, Fiona Chui, Hannah Stearman, Kallista Ashton, Nikole Espino, Sierra Fenicle

Second-year members - Allison Wilkes, Kalica Kohner, Maya Jump, Ryan Klaich
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Mark Fischer is fundraising
Amigos Eye Care - Senegal
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This March, a team of optometry students and doctors from Pacific University will be travelling to Senegal to provide free eye care to under-served communities along the country's western coast.

Our team is part of AMIGOS Eye Care, a registered non-profit organization that has been providing eye care to patients in developing countries since 1975. We plan to provide comprehensive examinations to over 400 patients, including dispensing prescription glasses, performing dilated posterior pole examinations, and providing referral services to in-country ophthalmology practices.

Our team is responsible for our airplane tickets, in-country transportation, meals and accommodation. As optometry students, our funds are very limited beyond what is necessary to pay for tuition, and we have to rely mainly on fundraising to be able to afford this trip. Our goal of $3000 will cover a portion our group's transportation costs. We need your help and any donations will be immensely appreciated.

More information about Amigos Eye Care: Pacific University College of Optometry: AMIGOS Eye Care is a non-profit organization of students, doctors and lay people affiliated with Pacific University College of Optometry in Forest Grove, Oregon. AMIGOS is dedicated to providing quality vision care at no cost to underserved people in the Portland area and throughout the world. Please visit our website at Amigoseyecare.org
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Ryan Ngo is fundraising
AMIGOS Team Cambodia
This December, a group of 9 optometry students and 1 optometrists from Pacific University College of Optometry, will be traveling to Cambodia to provide free eye exams and eyeglasses to the villages surrounding Phnom Penh.

The AMIGOS Eye Care program is a non-profit organization of students, doctors and lay people affiliated with Pacific University College of Optometry in Forest Grove, Oregon. AMIGOS is dedicated to providing quality vision care at no cost to underserved populations in the Portland area as well as throughout the world.

Cambodia has a population of nearly 15 million with 85% of the population living in rural areas in extreme poverty, with little or no education. With a blindness prevalence rate of 1.2%, it’s estimated that over 175,000 people are blind, and many more that are visually impaired. The causes of vision loss include cataracts, uncorrected refractive errors, glaucoma, corneal disease and pterygia. Of these causes, 80-90% are preventable or treatable! Unfortunately, with little to no access to eye care or eye glasses, preventable vision impairment and blindness persists within these communities.

We are passionate to make a difference by providing the best eye care services we can to these populations and help establish a vision clinic in Phnom Penh. We can make a significant impact and improve a child’s quality of life by simply providing a pair of glasses. This will be the fourth annual AMIGOS trip to Cambodia. We intend to build upon our relationships in the country so that we can establish a sustainable vision clinic in Phnom Penh and allow many more people to have continued access to eye care.

Our trip to Cambodia is dependent upon personal means and is very costly. Per person, flights are approximately $1300 with an estimation of $500 in country. The AMIGOS Team Cambodia has been working hard to fundraise for our trip to help cover these expenses.

We are humbly asking for donations to help support our eye care trip to Cambodia. Any amount will help and will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your consideration in helping us provide much needed eye care services to the people of Cambodia.

Trip details:

When: December 21, 2017 to January 1, 2018
Where: Phnom Penh and Pursat in Cambodia
In Country Partners: Building Bridges for Children, SABAI

Team Leaders:

Ryan Ngo, 3rd year student
[email redacted]
Ben Pon, 3rd year student

Team:
Al Torres, 3rd year student
Katy Tan, 3rd year student
Shantelle Kamibayashi, 3rd year student
Christina Tran, 2nd year student
Helon Law, 2nd year student
Liandra Jung, 2nd year student
Quan Dao, 2nd year student

To see some of the work that is done on these trips, check out these videos!
Guatemala 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUx5craL7ro
Peru 2016:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=xqHSEa7w3Xk&app=desktop

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. For more information on AMIGOS, check out  http://www.amigoseyecare.org
https://www.facebook.com/AMIGOSEyeCare/?fref=ts

If you are requiring a tax receipt, you must donate online via PayPal with AMIGOS Cambodia 2017 in the Memo.  http://www.amigoseyecare.org/donate-online.php

If you would like to donate gently used glasses or optometric equipment, please contact us!

Our deepest gratitude from AMIGOS Team Cambodia 2017,
Ryan, Ben, Al, Katy, Shantelle, Christina, Helon, Liandra, Quan
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About Amigos Eye Care: Pacific University College of Optometry

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1995

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