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> 56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2005
helped perform Vision Screenings in schools and stores of the Group and provided eyeglasses in
hospitals and retirement centers, helping a total of 199,412 people. Thanks to the strong dedication of
the program to children, during the year its two vision vans provided new eyeglasses for 24,748 children
living in isolated and remote areas of North America. In the cities, through Hometown Day, 20,100
children received eye exams and screenings.
The dramatic increase of people helped via Vision Van clinics was primarily due to the Hurricane relief
efforts in September 2005. Give the Gift of Sight Vision Vans helped 5,324 people living in temporary
shelters in San Antonio and Houston, Texas, and Monroe, Louisiana. Additionally, Luxottica Retail store
employees across North America gave new eyeglasses to 9,352 people in need, most of whom were
displaced hurricane victims. In 2005, at least 400 employees and opticians participated in international and
domestic missions. Give the Gift of Sight in North America delivered new eyeglasses to 121,561 people.
LOOKING AHEAD
The exciting results of the program to-date are the fruit of the passion and commitment of Group
volunteers, optometrists, vendors and charitable partners as well as of Luxottica Group. The joy and
enthusiasm that comes from reaching these goals are such that Give the Gift of Sight has set even more
ambitious goals for the future. In 2006, the program plans to help 766,000 people in North America and
internationally through missions, and to recycle 988,000 prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses. Also
in 2006, the Foundation will be increasing the number of its international missions to 16 (from 12 in
2005). The Foundation will also benefit from the additional support and help of the new members of the
Luxottica Group team from the acquisition of Cole National.
COMMUNITY I-CARE
In addition to Give the Gift of Sight, Luxottica Group is engaged in the Community I-Care program,
through its Asia-Pacific retail structure. At present, Community I-Care is focusing its activities in Australia.
Community I-Care, a program set up in 1978 by the OPSM Foundation of the former OPSM Group with
the primary aim of supporting research into eye related health issues, reflects the Group’s values and
commitment to stakeholders in supporting vision related causes and in assisting communities in remote
locations in Australia by providing free eye testing and prescription spectacles and sunglasses.
Since its inaugural participation in 2003, the program has resulted in the pre-testing of over 55,000 students
and 2,168 full eye examinations with over 900 pairs of glasses being supplied for young people in need.
In partnership with the local Rose Bay Rotary Club in Sydney, since 2003 Community I-Care has also carried
out five missions in underprivileged areas of Fiji Island, where 4,660 Fijians have received eye examinations,
with 3,600 pairs of glasses and 850 sunglasses being supplied and 291 operations carried out.
A partnership with The Salvation Army began in mid 2005 launched a pilot program designed to reach
out to people unable to afford eye care. This trial was extremely successful and also managed to help
people affected by the natural disasters that have hit Australia in 2006.