Provide an entrepreneur in the developing world with a Business in a Bag containing all the tools she or he needs to launch a successful business selling eyeglasses. The income Vision Entrepreneurs earn helps to lift their entire families from poverty. The eyeglasses they provide create tremendous economic benefit for poor communities. For $78, you can create a unique opportunity for local entrepreneurs to earn a living and reduce poverty in their villages.

Awareness is the first step to creating change. Support a Vision Entrepreneur to generate eyecare awareness through rural marketing and education campaigns. To teach villages in their sales territory about the importance of reading glasses, Vision Entrepreneurs employ innovative marketing techniques, such as hiring actors to perform skits, handing out flyers, or painting walls. With your support, you will help a Vision Entrepreneur to increase sales while generating awareness of eye care and eyeglasses among the rural poor.

With your support, a Vision Entrepreneur will host a rural eyeglasses sales campaign. Working with the local leader or mayor, the Vision Entrepreneur will provide free screenings for vision conditions, refer those needing advanced care to reputable eye hospitals and provide people who need reading glasses with a stylish, affordable pair.

Provide over 100 people with the chance to live full, productive lives once again. With a pair of eyeglasses, a master Indian weaver will be able to set his loom, creating intricate saris and earning a living to put his children through school. With clear vision, a Guatemalan farmer will be able to sort seeds before planting them and a Ghanaian woman will be able to read her newspaper or bible. Clear sight is the key to economic opportunity — and it's as simple as a pair of glasses.

VisionSpring believes in the power of entrepreneurship to change the lives of women throughout the developing world. By targeting women to work as Vision Entrepreneurs, VisionSpring provides women with valuable jobs that take them out of the home and into the visible space of the marketplace. The increased earnings they bring home help them to become leaders in their families. As providers of valuable health products, Vision Entrepreneurs are viewed as respected leaders of health and economic well-being in their communities. With your donation, VisionSpring and its partners will empower 15 women to run their own businesses selling eyeglasses.

With your donation of $5160, you make it possible for VisionSpring to bring its services — Vision Entrepreneur trainings, sales and marketing campaigns, and low-cost reading glasses — to a rural district that lacks access to eye care and economic opportunities. Your donation creates a sustainable program in the district — the revenue from glasses sales will support the region's Vision Entrepreneurs as well as their managers. In return, villages within the district will enjoy long-term access to affordable vision products, eye care, and economic opportunity.