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DELIVERING LIFE-CHANGING VISION CARE WHERE IT IS NEEDED MOST CONTENTS HUBERT SAGNIÈRES CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER We have welcomed the aspirational ESSILOR IS A COMPANY DRIVEN BY goals set out in the UN’s 2030 Agenda 80%* ONE CLEAR AMBITION. TO CORRECT GOOD for Sustainable Development. Society’s OF VISUAL PROBLEMS CAN AND PROTECT THE VISION OF THE challenges ahead are increasingly BE PREVENTED OR TREATED 7.4 BILLION PEOPLE WHO SHARE interconnected, requiring business, OUR PLANET. governments and civil society to work It’s been our core mission for nearly hand-in-hand. $272bn† 170 years to provide quality vision care With our many partners, we are solutions that improve lives by convinced that addressing the global A YEAR IN LOST PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO UNCORRECTED VISION improving sight. It’s that same mission issue of vision can help advance that has enabled Essilor to multiple Sustainable Development continuously create value, and to Goals. That’s because good vision is a become the undisputed world leader vital enabler, a foundation for healthy in ophthalmic optics, serving lives. Our work in the field has indeed professional customers and shown us how improving sight not only consumers in over 100 countries. improves lives, but contributes to many Every one of us should have the areas in the UN’s global agenda for opportunity to enjoy healthy vision development. throughout our lives. But poor vision In 2016 we mapped our impacts both EVERY ONE OF US SHOULD is still the world’s most widespread against our own priorities, as defined HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO disability. One-third of the world’s by our stakeholders, and against the ENJOY HEALTHY VISION population lacks the correction they SDGs, to measure progress and THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES.” need to see clearly, even though 80% challenge ourselves to go further. of visual problems can be prevented or treated. We embrace our role in supporting FIND OUT MORE this 2030 ambition and the goals we At Essilor we want to do more to make can impact. We strongly believe that a the world realise that poor vision sustainable business is an inclusive Discover Essilor’s mission to doesn’t just affect individuals’ lives, but improve lives by improving sight business. One that innovates to www.essilor.com/mission also strongly impacts social and develop markets, increase access to economic development. In fact, an affordable vision care and improve the estimated $272 billion a year in lost Find out how Essilor’s sustainability lives of people waiting to make their approach supports this mission productivity impacts the global contribution to the world. www.essilor.com/sustainability economy due to uncorrected poor vision. This public health issue we face will *World Health Organization. only grow more acute in the decades † Smith et al: Potential lost productivity resulting IMPROVING VISION to come. Half the world’s population from the global burden of uncorrected refractive will be myopic by 2050, with up to error – Bulletin of World Health Organization 2009, 87:431–437 (adjusted to 2015 population data). PROVIDES US WITH A UNIQUE 1 billion people at an increased risk of OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE blindness if current trends continue. Finding new ways to correct and TO SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL protect vision is fundamental for people’s visual health today and the VISION IS DEVELOPMENT.” prosperity of the world tomorrow. 02 03 INTRODUCTION: VISION IS A GLOBAL ENABLER WE RAISE AWARENESS ON THE WE CREATE AND SCALE-UP A BASIC GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUE THAT POOR SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO READ PAGE 02 VISION REPRESENTS FOR ONE-THIRD HEALTHY VISION FOR UNDERSERVED HUMAN OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION. COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE. 500m INDIVIDUALS IN CHINA MAKING CAN’T SEE PROPERLY Addressing this unparalleled EVERY PAIR crisis at both ends COUNT of the age spectrum Read more on page 16 Delivering glasses for four million people who need them Read more on page 13 60,000 screened across 50 countries on World Sight Day Read more on page 22 THROUGH IN GOOD COMPANY CHANGE AT THE 1ST ADVISORY BOARD OF PARTNERSHIP @OurChildrensVsn! we are demonstrating GREAT WORK AHEAD the life-changing benefits Read more on page 14 of correcting vision and scaling-up ways to bring vision ESSILOR’S AMBITION TO SEE CHANGE IS PART OF THE COMPANY’S care to people in underserved RIGHT. communities worldwide. SEE WHY WE NEED TO BRIDGE THE VISUAL DIVIDE Broadening access to eyeglasses would €30m lead to significant benefits: the GLOBAL MISSION TO IMPROVE LIVES BY IMPROVING SIGHT Vision For Life: Our biggest groundbreaking EYElliance report investment to date on Read more on page 14 sustainable infrastructure STRONGER and programs SEEING WELL IMPROVES TOGETHER 10 11 EVERYTHING IN LIFE, FROM STRONGER TOGETHER AN INDIVIDUAL’S HEALTH, THROUGH PARTNERSHIP EDUCATION AND WORK READ PAGE 10 WE SUPPORT THREE MAIN AREAS OF ACTION TO REACH THE OPPORTUNITIES TO THE 2.5 BILLION PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES ARE OUT OF FOCUS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 4,000 Scaling our primary vision care OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES GOING providers across the globe 1 2 3 MOBILE Read more on page 32 Thinking outside of the box to take visual correction to those beyond the reach of conventional services Read more on page 34 LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY Using social networks to bridge the gaps THROUGH Read more on page 36 INNOVATION AND ECONOMIES. we ensure that we create CHANGE the right solution that meets local needs and creates greatest impact. WE INNOVATE IN MULTIPLE WAYS TO DEVELOP, ADAPT AND SCALE-UP INCLUSIVE SOLUTIONS Read more on page 26 SEE RESEARCH INCLUSIVE STRATEGIC THE #seechangechallenge TOP THREE FINALISTS AIM TO BRING BETTER TAILORING OUR $487m #EYECARE FOR the potential economic impact of our UNDERSERVED REGIONS Eye Mitra Optician program for India GLOBALLY APPROACH Read more on page 28 Read more on page 37 AND ADVOCACY BUSINESS GIVING 24 25 We work with organizations Our for-profit inclusive We fund and manage TAILORING OUR around the world to help business models innovate to outreach programs that bring APPROACH THROUGH make the case for prioritizing provide access to vision care vision screening and vision INNOVATION better vision care. for low-income consumers in care to the communities most underserved regions. in need. READ PAGE 24 FIND OUT HOW WE ARE IMPROVING VISION AND CHANGING LIVES WWW.ESSILORSEECHANGE.COM EXPLORE HOW ESSILOR LEVERAGES INNOVATION AND ITS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK TO DELIVER ON ITS MISSION WWW.ESSILOR.COM JOIN THE CONVERSATION AROUND VISUAL HEALTH FOR ALL @SEECHANGE4ALL 01 HUBERT SAGNIÈRES CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER We have welcomed the aspirational ESSILOR IS A COMPANY DRIVEN BY goals set out in the UN’s 2030 Agenda 80%* ONE CLEAR AMBITION. TO CORRECT for Sustainable Development. Society’s AND PROTECT THE VISION OF THE OF VISUAL PROBLEMS CAN challenges ahead are increasingly BE PREVENTED OR TREATED 7.4 BILLION PEOPLE WHO SHARE interconnected, requiring business, OUR PLANET. governments and civil society to work It’s been our core mission for nearly hand-in-hand. $272bn† 170 years to provide quality vision care With our many partners, we are solutions that improve lives by convinced that addressing the global A YEAR IN LOST PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO UNCORRECTED VISION improving sight. It’s that same mission issue of vision can help advance that has enabled Essilor to multiple Sustainable Development continuously create value, and to Goals. That’s because good vision is a become the undisputed world leader vital enabler, a foundation for healthy in ophthalmic optics, serving lives. Our work in the field has indeed professional customers and shown us how improving sight not only consumers in over 100 countries. improves lives, but contributes to many Every one of us should have the areas in the UN’s global agenda for opportunity to enjoy healthy vision development. throughout our lives. But poor vision In 2016 we mapped our impacts both EVERY ONE OF US SHOULD is still the world’s most widespread against our own priorities, as defined HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO disability. One-third of the world’s by our stakeholders, and against the ENJOY HEALTHY VISION population lacks the correction they SDGs, to measure progress and THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES.” need to see clearly, even though 80% challenge ourselves to go further. of visual problems can be prevented or treated. We embrace our role in supporting FIND OUT MORE this 2030 ambition and the goals we At Essilor we want to do more to make can impact. We strongly believe that a the world realise that poor vision sustainable business is an inclusive Discover Essilor’s mission to doesn’t just affect individuals’ lives, but improve lives by improving sight business. One that innovates to www.essilor.com/mission also strongly impacts social and develop markets, increase access to economic development. In fact, an affordable vision care and improve the estimated $272 billion a year in lost Find out how Essilor’s sustainability lives of people waiting to make their approach supports this mission productivity impacts the global contribution to the world. www.essilor.com/sustainability economy due to uncorrected poor vision. This public health issue we face will *World Health Organization. only grow more acute in the decades † Smith et al: Potential lost productivity resulting IMPROVING VISION to come. Half the world’s population from the global burden of uncorrected refractive will be myopic by 2050, with up to error – Bulletin of World Health Organization 2009, 87:431–437 (adjusted to 2015 population data). PROVIDES US WITH A UNIQUE 1 billion people at an increased risk of OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE blindness if current trends continue. Finding new ways to correct and TO SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL protect vision is fundamental for people’s visual health today and the DEVELOPMENT.” prosperity of the world tomorrow.