Business in a Bag
Each Vision Entrepreneur receives his or her own Business in a Bag, a microfranchise sales kit containing all the products and materials needed to market and sell eyeglasses. Vision Entrepreneurs undergo a three-day training in basic eye care and business management and receive close, ongoing support from staff.
Equipped with their Business in a Bag, Vision Entrepreneurs conduct educational outreach on vision care and offer screenings in their communities. To maximize their efforts, Vision Entrepreneurs partner with reputable local institutions such as schools and churches to host mobile vision campaigns.
Comprehensive Eye Care
Vision Entrepreneurs conduct screenings to determine if their customer has up-close vision problems, which are easily treated with over-the-counter reading glasses like those available in drugstores across the United States. If the customer has more complex vision problems such as astigmatism or myopia, the Vision Entrepreneur will refer the customer to either a VisionSpring Optical Shop or a partner eye hospital.
Partners
VisionSpring directly manages a comparatively small corps of Vision Entrepreneurs who sell our glasses. To efficiently address the scale of the need for vision care in the developing world, we also partner with like-minded organizations who sell our glasses and manage their own network of Vision Entrepreneurs.
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