Delivering Life-Changing Vision Care Where It Is Needed Most Contents

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.

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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

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.

02 03 EMBRACING OUR ROLE Partnership powers Committed to the UN Global IN SUPPORTING 13 SDGs everything. We are proud Compact, we take a lead to to work with multi-sector ensure fair, accountable partners on all levels to pool ON THE GLOBAL STAGE and responsible business We’re committed to our knowledge, experience practices across our value fight climate change by and resources to scale-up We provide free vision chain – involving suppliers improving energy efficiency and vision care solutions to care to people living below Our vision care programs have in our sustainability reducing CO and GHG emissions. address the global health the poverty line in over 2 ambitions to achieve an impact on seven of the Since 2007, we’ve reduced energy challenge of poor vision. 40 countries. Our inclusive intensity per good lens by 22% and greater positive impact business programs improve sustainable development goals. target a further 15% reduction by together. vision and boost local The sustainable approach 2020. We continue initiatives economies by creating to maintain our position as jobs and increasing we have adopted across a low-carbon business. PEACE & JUSTICE incomes.

our value chain TNERSHIPS By 2030 the world will have more than AR Vision underpins everyone’s health contributes to P 3 billion new middle-class consumers, CLIMA 1 and well-being. We aim to protect mostly in emerging countries. We ACTION 6 7 and correct the visual health of the a further six. TE TY explore how best to meet all needs by 1 seven + billion people on earth, with NO VER a focus on the 2.5 billion individuals designing products and solutions that 1 PO support sustainable consumption and 3 who lack vision correction. To date, by using resources responsibly. 1 we’ve equipped six million people RESPONSIBLE with their first pair of glasses. CONSUMPTION TH & & PRODUCTION GOOD HEAL 12 3 WELL-BEING In rural areas of less developed countries, only We help address existing inequalities in income one in six children who need glasses have them. and opportunity. Our inclusive business programs Our strategic giving programs equip children from positively impact through skills training, job REDUCE QUALITY disadvantaged communities to see clearly, to creation and stimulating local economies; our INEQUALITIES 4 EDUCATION perform better at school and improve educational strategic-giving programs bring access to vision 10 outcomes. We also advocate at global, national care for people excluded for a range of social, and local levels to make vision a priority in school financial or other reasons. health programs.

, RY 5 GENDER DUST & 9 EQU IN ION ALITY VAT RE O CTU We want women and girls INN RU to have equal access to good RAST We use our global innovation, production INF 6 vision, education and opportunities to and distribution network to develop CLEAN W contribute socially and economically to their K 8 & SANIT solutions for the wide diversity of need. OR IC communities. Many of our inclusive business W M Through inclusive business programs in O H 7 programs empower women to develop new ENT OWT A ATER 30 developing nations, we are transferring CON AFFORD skills, create a professional activity and E & CLEAN ENERGY TION DEC & GR knowledge, developing skills and building improve financial independence through vision care infrastructure. providing vision care locally.

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Correcting vision increases productivity FIND OUT MORE and earnings, bringing Water is a key resource for making secondary benefits such as lenses thus we seek to reduce improved road safety and better consumption to minimise impact Read more in our dedicated adult literacy and participation in We are increasing on local populations and the SDG Contribution Report local economies. Our inclusive business use of renewable environment. Since 2007, we’ve 3 programs empower individuals by energies locally for saved 9.1 million m of water. creating jobs, and boosting example from solar and We continue to deploy further income and productivity. geothermal sources water savings programs in and engaging energy our sites across the world. utilities and transport suppliers in carbon efficiency programs.

04 05 JAYANTH BHUVARAGHAN CHIEF MISSION OFFICER

By continually improving the across products, screening devices IMPROVING LIVES BY IMPROVING effectiveness of our inclusive business and ways to deliver vision care locally is SIGHT HAS GUIDED ESSILOR FOR models in the field – from primary essential to extending access, however 170 YEARS. vision care providers to mobile vision remote the community. clinics – we’ve been able to ramp-up Our journey today continues because Our work since 2012 in identifying deployment, expanding affordable 2.5 billion people still suffer from the 2.5 billion people in need is vision care for base of the pyramid uncorrected poor vision and its slowly but surely helping to draw the consumers in 30 countries across Asia, consequences. Four years ago, we world’s attention to this global health Africa and Latin America. Our success stepped up our commitment to and development issue. The scale of to date is thanks to incredible fulfilling our mission everywhere, the challenge is vast and we will not relationships with over 250 strategic creating dedicated teams to accelerate achieve it alone. We’ll continue to partners ranging from local and efforts to reach the third of the world’s develop cross-sector partnerships, international NGOs to impact investors population who do not yet have the collaborating with public, private, and development agencies. vision correction they need. national and community stakeholders Since then we’ve launched and We’ve seen that correcting vision has to open up access to good vision. scaled-up new inclusive business not only improved quality of life but By combining our strengths we have a models and deployed many non-profit created an important ripple effect unique opportunity to make a real step initiatives to improve access to vision benefiting families, communities and change, contributing in a significant care in developing (and developed) society at large. Seeing the impact we way both to global development and nations. As a result over six million are bringing – improving learning, individual life journeys. people have been equipped with their increasing incomes, creating jobs and rejuvenating local communities – first pair of eyeglasses. We’ve also FIND OUT MORE created 4,000 primary vision care drives us to go further. providers who will play a crucial role 90% of people who need vision Join the conversation in ensuring continuing vision care in correction live in developing nations around visual health at their communities. where services are limited. Innovating www.essilorseechange.com

RAMPING-UP OUR ACHIEVEMENT OVER FOUR YEARS* New eyeglasses wearers Primary vision care providers Number of partners

2016 6m 2016 4,000 2016 255 WE ARE ON THE THRESHOLD OF MAKING A REAL STEP CHANGE IN BRINGING GOOD VISION TO THE WORLD.” 2013 100K 2013 88 2013 20

*Figures at end 2016.

06 07 CHANGING LIFE OUTCOMES A solution as simple as a pair of glasses can immediately and positively impact the daily lives of individuals, their families and communities. ENSURING INDEPENDENCE Seeing clearly enables people to remain living independently longer, move around safely and continue to enjoy daily near-vision activities like sewing or reading.

I USED TO OFTEN FALL DOWN THE STAIRS BUT NEVER REALIZED IT WAS BECAUSE I COULDN’T SEE PROPERLY. AT A VISION CAMP THEY CHECKED MY EYES AND PROVIDED ME SUPPORTING A HAPPY AND WITH A FREE PAIR OF GLASSES. I AM PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE VERY THANKFUL FOR THIS.”

Correcting vision enables people to work A VILLAGE ELDER safely, boosting productivity and earning IN MANDALAY, MYANMAR, TOLD ESSILOR VOLUNTEERS AT A FOLLOW-UP SCREENING potential as well as enabling them to remain active in the workforce.

TACKLING MAXIMISING BEFORE IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT INEQUALITY OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO SEE THE FIGURES ON WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST In some countries girls and Glasses that correct a child’s eyesight, THE MEASURING TAPE. THERE women don’t have equal WERE TIMES I EVEN INJURED People with particular disabilities or conditions are help him or her read and learn better. often neglected when it comes to vision care. We aim access to eye care services and It can improve not just educational MYSELF BECAUSE OF NOT SEEING to equip them to participate fully in life and help build education, limiting opportunities outcomes, but life opportunities. PROPERLY. THESE GLASSES MAKE a more inclusive society. to learn and contribute socially MY LIFE EASIER SO I REALLY TAKE and economically. CARE OF THEM.”

JESUS PALANGA CARPENTER FROM MANILA, PHILIPPINES, I WAS NOT ABLE TO SEE CLEARLY HAVING CLEAR VISION IS KEY TO GOT HIS FIRST GLASSES AT A SCREENING I WANT TO BECOME A IN SCHOOL SO IT WAS DIFFICULT PROGRAM IN 2016 LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST. VISION IS TEACHER. NOW THAT I FOR ME TO DO MY LESSONS IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE WHETHER THEY CAN SEE CLEARLY I WILL PROPERLY. NOW I HAVE MY NEW ARE WITH OR WITHOUT DISABILITIES.” STUDY EVEN HARDER TO SPECS AND I CAN KEEP UP WITH REALIZE MY DREAM.” MY FRIENDS.” SASHI MONTANA A 19-YEAR-OLD SPECIAL OLYMPICS YOUTH LEADER WHO IS RAISING THE FLAG FOR INCLUSIVE VISION ZHUOMA WILLIAM CARE WITH HER ‘EYE CAN PLAY’ PROJECT A SCHOOLGIRL FROM QINGHAI A YOUNG BOY IN THE TREE OF LIFE PROVINCE, CHINA WHO RECEIVED ORPHANAGE IN ZAMBIA RECEIVED HIS HER FIRST PAIR OF GLASSES IN FIRST PAIR OF GLASSES IN MARCH 2016 MAY 2016

08 09 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 care to people in underserved communities worldwide.

SEE WHY WE NEED TO BRIDGE THE VISUAL DIVIDE Broadening access to eyeglasses would €30m lead to significant benefits: the Vision For Life: Our biggest groundbreaking EYElliance report investment to date on Read more on page 14 sustainable infrastructure STRONGER and programs TOGETHER

10 11 HOW DO WE ADDRESS THE CRITICAL BARRIERS TO GOOD VISION?

To expand vision care in developing This valuable experience enables us to MARK SACHS KIRAN ANANDAMPILLAI countries, we need to tackle every contribute more effectively in strategic OUR barrier – from a lack of investment, alliances with multi-sector partners. FOUNDER FOUNDER HEARING PERSPECTIVE infrastructure or vision-care workers Coalitions, like Our Children’s Vision RESTORING VISION DRISHTI FROM OUR to delivery mechanisms that can and EYElliance, allow us to combine “In the developing world, a pair of glasses “In a typical Indian province, 80% of PARTNERS Most people bring affordable eyeglasses to our knowledge and resources to provides immediate improvement to people live in villages where there is no Partnership is people wherever they live. achieve greater impact – raising many daily life tasks while sunglasses eye care provision. We operate a hub awareness, influencing change and suffer from To achieve change, we have to help protect against long-term eye and spoke approach from our eye important for us scaling-up vision care programs. poor vision educate and influence national policies damage from overexposure to UV rays. hospital linked to vision centres in small as it leverages tomorrow as well as improve vision The size of the challenge ahead We work with 1,400 partners to deliver towns and mobile vision vans that because they today through partnerships at every requires collective action – from both, to people in need across the world. travel into the countryside. This last mile our combined delivery is important to bring eye care level. At one end, working with governments, development agencies Teams at FGX, part of the Essilor Group, can’t afford to the doorstep and equip people on strengths – community groups on the ground and impact investors to service have supported this work, donating or access brings us valuable knowledge about providers big and small. If we galvanise nearly four million pairs of readers and the spot. The bulk of vision problems infrastructure, care in the how we can develop or enhance efforts on a scale similar to global sunglasses, securing donations from we treat are uncorrected refractive error products, existing systems to create vision care health interventions to eradicate polio, their customers and distributors and and 75% of the glasses we dispense in rural or urban from the bottom up. We’re grateful to combat malaria and HIV/AIDS, then we facilitating the logistics of distributing villages are for first-time wearers. distribution communities the many local partners who’ve helped can create the critical mass to improve packs of glasses to organisations Partnership is important for us as it and marketing. us overcome local challenges and the future of visual health and drive worldwide. leverages our combined strengths – successfully develop inclusive vision sustainable world development. where they live. Now we’re identifying strategic partners infrastructure, products, distribution care programs to meet their and marketing. Essilor’s expertise in community needs. among global health organizations with infrastructure, distribution or service providing a range of affordable quality systems in developing countries. Getting glasses that we sell across our network them to add vision care into the health saves us valuable time and resources. In THE SIZE OF THE CHALLENGE services they offer through dispensing addition, Essilor provides philanthropic AHEAD REQUIRES reading glasses will have a lasting impact support, sponsoring mobile vans that COLLECTIVE ACTION.” and enable us to broaden our reach.” will become self-sustaining and helping us expand vision screening into rural Restoring Vision is a non-profit organization schools. There’s a clear alignment with that has delivered over six million new FIND OUT MORE what we both want to achieve – reading glasses and sunglasses to growing our business and reaching new projects through an international network wearers in rural communities.” Read the full partner of small mission partners and large NGOs. interviews on Drishti is a social impact enterprise essilorseechange.com delivering affordable eye care in underserved areas in India.

12 13 BUILDING MOMENTUM THROUGH MULTI-SECTOR OUR CHILDREN’S VISION IS DRIVEN BY PARTNERS WHO HAVE LONG BEEN ACTIVE VISION IMPACT INSTITUTE: COLLABORATION DATA TO DRIVE DECISIONS IN VISUAL HEALTH AND WHO BRING THEIR EXPERIENCE, EXPERTISE AND DESIRE TO Data is essential in documenting the HAVE A LONG-TERM IMPACT.” need and the impact of vision care interventions. The Vision Impact Institute (VII), created by Essilor in KOVIN NAIDOO 2012 to educate on the quality of life CEO OF BRIEN HOLDEN VISION benefits of corrected vision, has To push back the frontiers of poor vision, we are INSTITUTE AND OUR CHILDREN’S built up one of the world’s most forging alliances with multi-sector partners to work VISION CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR extensive databases of vision-related together with the common goal of bringing good scientific research on uncorrected refractive error. vision to everyone, everywhere. Awareness, advocacy Its evidence-based data is increasingly and action are equally important to identify need used by campaigning organisations like and show impact in order to get vision care more the WHO and IAPB to inform global and firmly on national agendas. national discussions on vision health. In the United States, for example, children’s vision disorders cost an estimated $10 billion annually. A recent Guidelines on integrating school eye report suggested that uncorrected EYELLIANCE: EXPANDING CHILDREN’S ACCESS health programs into general health refractive errors could double there by BRIDGING THE VISUAL DIVIDE TO EYE HEALTH SERVICES programs were published in 2016. 2050 unless significant efforts are Already governments in Cambodia, Essilor’s review of visual health has Our Children’s Vision is a global made to slow eye diseases and Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe have helped highlight the pressing need to coalition of over 50 multi-sector conditions. VII has partnered with approved policies putting vision health reach the 2.5 billion people who are partners co-founded by the Brien Optometry Giving Sight and VSP Global within national school health programs. economically disadvantaged by poor Holden Vision Institute and Essilor’s to launch a new US initiative – Kids See: vision. Contributing its research and Vision For Life fund in 2016. It was born Success – to educate parents, experiences, Essilor added its voice to from the idea that by mobilizing the FIND OUT MORE legislators, school nurses, teachers and EYElliance, a coalition to build resources, networks and know-how of administrators and to advocate for cross-sector support to broaden a range of partners, from vision care Find out more at the World In 2015 less than mandatory comprehensive eye exams access to eyeglasses. Its report, providers, governments and civil 1% of global health Economic Forum before a child enters kindergarten. Its and development ‘Eyeglasses for global development: society to not-for-profit organizations, http://www.weforum.org aim: to ensure that correctable vision bridging the visual divide’, published more could be done to benefit the lives investment was spent on vision care problems don’t hinder children’s social by the World Economic Forum, points of millions of children across the world. Find out more about and educational development. to the importance of public-private With the power of partnership behind expanding children’s access to cooperation in overcoming barriers to it, the coalition has a unique eye health services VII’s work has also focused on issues www.ourchildrensvision.org deliver a scalable solution. The report opportunity to move the needle in like road safety. More than 80% of includes our Eye Mitra program terms of children’s eye health. drivers in India involved in accidents in India. 50m have at least one visual disability. Putting collaboration into action, in one A common goal to Such data makes a powerful case for Through collaborations such as this, year its partners have enabled the expand eye health services to 50m advocating policies to include vision we will continue to push for the screening of 10 million children, 2 cents children by 2020 testing as a pre-cursor to obtaining political will, investment and improving health and learning potential. spent for every person a driving licence. engagement of public-private whose vision could Beyond impacting individual lives, be corrected with glasses partnership to prioritize the provision Our Children’s Vision also seeks to versus $12.15 spent of glasses as a key lever of global per person on FIND OUT MORE bring long-lasting change through development. energy access policies impacting on local, regional or Find out more about the work national levels. Its research is giving of the Vision Impact Institute valuable insight on how best to reach www.visionimpactinstitute.org and treat children in the future.

14 15 AN UNPARALLELED TACKLING MYOPIA TO IMPROVE LEARNING CRISIS: POOR VISION Over the past three years in China, IN CHINA through the Essilor Vision Foundation, we’ve been investing in initiatives to improve access to vision care, enabling over 200,000 schoolchildren from disadvantaged families to be screened and over 10,000 to be equipped with their first pair of eyeglasses. With longer life expectancy, a growing elderly The Eye Do program, managed by population and epidemic levels of myopia Essilor Vision Foundation in partnership among younger generations, the impact with Chinese hospital group Aier, trains teachers in Shanghai and Hunan to of impaired vision is fast becoming a key 1.3% provide basic vision screening. This concern in China. of GDP impacted by the ambitious program, named best social and economic charity project two years running at the costs of visual defects China Charity Festival, has a particular focus on children from migrant families who are often excluded from many basic healthcare services. Over the next five years, we plan to test more In 2016, China conducted its first ON ONE HAND, THE NUMBER than 900,000 children by extending comprehensive review of visual health, OF YOUTH WITH MYOPIA our programs to a further 20 provinces. revealing an unparalleled crisis affecting IN CHINA IS HIGH, WHICH hundreds of millions of people with CAN THREATEN THE VISION serious consequences for their personal EXTENDING SERVICES TO health as well as the country’s future. HEALTH OF PRESENT AND HARD-TO-REACH COMMUNITIES This national study highlights the critical FUTURE GENERATIONS. We’ve also been working with eye need for visual health solutions and hospital partners across four provinces outlines a framework for public policies ON THE OTHER HAND, to scale-up delivery of local vision care to promote better vision. PATIENTS ARE EXPERIENCING through inclusive business approaches. AGE-RELATED VISUAL We’ve developed a range of One example is our vision ambassador partnerships – from a joint-research DEFECTS AT A MUCH program (p. 32) that trains people from center with the Wenzhou Medical YOUNGER AGE. THIS CAN local rural communities to carry out University exploring new approaches BE A HEAVY BURDEN TO A basic vision screenings and sell to slow the progression of myopia in SOCIETY THAT IS SEEING glasses. It’s proved an effective way children, to inclusive business and SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN to reach communities in high altitude philanthropic programs that bring ITS ELDERLY POPULATION.” regions where the combination of vision care services to underserved harsh UV light and lack of services populations of all ages. has resulted in high rates of vision PROFESSOR LI LING impairment. HEAD OF CHINA 700m CENTER FOR HEALTH FIND OUT MORE BY 2020, NEARLY 700 MILLION PEOPLE, DEVELOPMENT TWICE THE US POPULATION, ARE EXPECTED TO BE MYOPIC Read more at the Vision Impact

FIND OUT MORE Institute website https://visionimpactinstitute. org/vision-impact-institute- 1/4 Read the study at BY 2050 MORE THAN A QUARTER OF china/ www.visionimpactinstitute.org CHINA’S POPULATION WILL BE OVER 65

16 17 INVESTING TO 4 in 10 IMPROVE CHILDREN’S children in France don’t get the vision correction they need VISION TODAY following diagnosis

program with education authorities in Paris to train school nurses and doctors on all aspects of visual health so they can also help educate families on the importance of vision correction for learning and social development. Essilor Vision Foundation has also been taking vision care to low-decile schools across Australia and New Zealand to support children from indigenous and disadvantaged WORKING WITH VISION FOR communities who often lack access LIFE HAS ENABLED US TO to basic vision care. In screenings for over 2,500 students, more than one in SET UP A TRAINING PROCESS A key focus for our In Africa our aim is helping to overcome fundamental barriers that four were referred for a comprehensive FOR SCHOOL DOCTORS AND philanthropic efforts prevent children from seeing well and eye exam and received a free pair NURSES TO ENSURE OPTIMAL is enabling children to achieving their potential. A three-year of glasses. SCREENING FOR STUDENTS perform better at school. program in Ethiopia, supported by JUST AFTER PRIMARY Essilor, enabled 90,000 children to be CREATIVE WAYS TO TARGET SCHOOL. IT ALSO ENABLES Research has shown that correcting the screened: 20,000 of them needed a RESOURCES IN MEXICO US TO SET UP A POLICY OF vision of primary school students can full eye refraction. Whilst this bring the equivalent of an extra third to We’re supporting Save the Children CARE FOR VISUAL PROBLEMS, partnership with Vision Aid Overseas half a year’s schooling, potentially will continue for another three years, and Salud Digna, a non-profit IN PARTICULAR FOR increasing future earnings by as much we’re developing other initiatives with healthcare provider in Mexico, with a UNDERPRIVILEGED FAMILIES.” as 5%. Detecting and correcting a vision local partners in Kenya and Ivory simple but effective way to find and problem can give children an equal Coast to help children in hard-to-reach help 5,000 children who don’t see DR. IVAN CARTACHEFF opportunity to succeed in education communities. clearly. Teams use a pair of ‘paper and improve employment and earning glasses’ with tiny holes all over to MEDICAL ADVISOR TO possibilities. By supporting the Essilor detect the amount of light that hits the THE PARIS EDUCATION LOCAL PROGRAMS TO TACKLE Vision Foundation and Vision For Life, eye. While it doesn’t define what type AUTHORITY A GLOBAL PROBLEM we’ve expanded our range of initiatives of correction is needed, it identifies into 20 countries, reaching 600,000 Access to vision can be highly unequal, those children who need a follow-up Watch the video of the children in 2016. even in developed nations. Essilor eye exam and corrective glasses. From screenings in targeted public schools, Vision For Life training event We want to ensure that no child is left Vision Foundation is active across the children in need of visual correction behind. In India we’ve been working US and Canada to bridge the gap. In are referred to the nearest Salud Digna with eye hospital partners, Sankara and 2016 it supported some 1,000 events 600,000 clinic. Essilor has worked with Salud Drishti, in an extensive rural schools giving vision exams and glasses to over children reached in 200,000 children. A flagship program Digna since 2014 to expand vision care 2016 by expansion of program in Karnataka, southwest India 80% is Kids Vision For Life™ which runs services at its network of clinics across Essilor’s work in 20 screening almost 90,000 children of what a child Mexico and the US that treat over three countries from more than 1,200 schools. Both mobile vision clinics, enabling teams to learns occurs through million low-income patients a year. the visual system programs have looked to build vision visit schools and provide prescription skills in local communities: Sankara eyeglasses on the spot. by involving teachers in eye In France, 40% of the children FIND OUT MORE $10bn screenings, Drishti by training rural identified at school as having vision Children’s vision community workers to screen and problems never get the correction Read more about the disorders cost an mobilizing eye care workers to follow estimated $10 billion they need. Vision For Life has philanthropic programs annually in the up and dispense eyeglasses. launched a pilot schools vision we support United States

18 19 REACHING INCLUSIVE VISION CARE COMMUNITIES WHO ARE We’re also addressing the needs of disadvantaged communities who lack DISPROPORTIONATELY basic eye health services in developed countries. In France, Vision For Life has AFFECTED created a long-term partnership with the Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation to provide universal access to vision care for around 5,000 people living in extreme precarity in the Paris region. For low-income workers who can find it Our ambition is to provide quality vision to all. Many country-specific initiatives aim difficult to afford or access eye care, to break down the barriers that prevent we’ve supported screening programs That’s why we value partnerships that enable us people from accessing basic health in Singapore and Dubai to help over to reach disadvantaged communities who are services. In Morocco, Vision For Life 2,000 migrant construction workers disproportionately affected by visual health joined forces with the Mohammed V and domestic helpers correct and Foundation which organizes medical protect their vision. problems due to different social, geographic humanitarian camps for underprivileged populations across the country through and economic factors. CELEBRATING ABILITIES a suite of mobile vans and specialist THROUGH SPORT healthcare teams. Vision For Life has also supported two other national Essilor’s long-term partnership with vision care programs in Morocco Special Olympics moved up a gear in focusing on the visual health needs of 2016 to provide 24,000 athletes with women and children in northern cities. intellectual disabilities with eye care at nearly 140 events across four We’ve supported similar medical continents. In addition to vision health missions in Laos and Myanmar that are programs in the US, Germany, Austria, making inroads into remote regions Philippines and Nigeria, 2016 saw its where communities struggle to receive first Opening Eyes program for any kind of medical care. Partnering athletes in Dakar, Senegal. Essilor has with NGO Humanitarian with Love in supported the Special Olympics 2016, Essilor Vision Foundation has Opening Eyes initiative since 2002, been able to include vision care as helping over 180,000 athletes to part of three medical health camps improve their vision through involving 200 volunteer doctors, prescription eyewear, sunglasses dentists, physicians and optometrists. and sports equipment. Failing vision can severely impact the health and autonomy of elderly people who make up a significant proportion ALBINISM: of those living in hard-to-reach BRINGING LIFE INTO FOCUS communities. Over 2,000 individuals Improving vision can break the cycle 180,000 benefited from eye tests and of poor school achievement as well Special Olympics corrective glasses or sunglasses, as tackle social exclusion. Vision For including many older villagers for athletes supported with Life has a four-year partnership whom preserving visual health is vital improved vision care with NGO Standing Voice to bring for their continuing quality of life. since 2002 WHEN PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM healthy vision to 4,000 children with ARE GIVEN APPROPRIATE ASSISTIVE albinism in Tanzania who suffer from significant visual impairment and DEVICES AND A SUPPORTIVE Watch how villagers in Laos were moved by Essilor Vision social discrimination. Through this LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WE Foundation’s latest mission project we hope to provide a model 1,500 CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.” to influence vision care for people individuals Helping affected by albinism in neighbouring received an eye test or MASHAKA TUJU African countries. corrective glasses through 4,000 the partnership with STANDING VOICE EDUCATION Mohammed V children with albinism in Tanzania SUPPORT OFFICER Watch how we are supporting Foundation Standing Voice in Tanzania

20 21 THE POWER OF

OUR INTERNAL UK & POLAND COMMUNITY Two initiatives with a common goal: to reduce the number of unsafe drivers on the roads. Teams in Poland conducted eye screenings at fuel stations in major cities. In the UK, Essilor continued its #DrivingBlind campaign, calling on the government to make regular vision screening a legal requirement for drivers. GERMANY & AUSTRIA A multi-network effort from four Group companies in Our mission is a call to action that US & CANADA Germany and Austria who engaged over 200 opticians to provide free screening and mobilized support for two encourages employees and Group A special event with Essilor overseas programs: training and optical equipment for partners to get involved in raising Vision Foundation: teams at eight hospitals in Cameroon and corrective eyeglasses Essilor’s Center for Innovation for children at SOS Children’s Villages in Cambodia. awareness and improving vision health and Technologies welcomed in their communities. This year’s World over 400 local children from low-income schools Sight Day mobilized teams across on-campus for an eye health more than 50 countries reaching a check-up and glasses. In FRANCE Canada the Essilor Vision record number of 60,000 people. Foundation launched with a Essilor teams screened employees at the commitment to provide vision offices of Group suppliers Havas and care to 25,000 of Canada’s Google France. neediest children.

ROMANIA Prioritising vision care for vulnerable communities: teams worked with opticians BRAZIL and local charities to provide screening and More than 700 eye screenings corrective glasses to children in orphanages in Rio thanks to the efforts and special schools across three cities. of Essilor volunteers, vision ambassadors and local partners. At Essilor’s production site in the Amazonas region, volunteers provided eye testing and glasses for local bus drivers. EAST AFRICA A first Word Sight Day project for our team in Nairobi, Kenya: a free eye check-up camp in the city center, organised with healthcare partner Medicross, to reach people who have difficulty in accessing vision care.

PHILIPPINES & CAMBODIA A joyous celebration of eye health organised by staff from Essilor’s local SOUTH AFRICA INDIA production site with over 700 students and teachers from primary schools Teams raised eye care awareness via A record 39,000 people screened on in Binan, Laguna. A project with local school communities with a program one single day and over 11,000 NGO, Cambodia Children Fun, to engaging teachers to help educate equipped with a pair of glasses. Essilor improve the vision health of elderly Watch the video about our parents and children about healthy mobilized its local network of primary residents and children from low- activities on World Sight Day vision, and volunteers conducting vision care providers – Eye Mitra and income communities in Phnom Penh. vision screening in schools. Vision Ambassadors – to organize a total of 508 events across seven Indian states.

22 23 4,000 Scaling our primary vision care GOING providers across the globe 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 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

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

24 25 WHY DOES HEARING STUART HART FROM OUR PROFESSOR OF PARTNERS SUSTAINABLE LEARNING DRIVE BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT’S GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SUBROTO BAGCHI AND FOUNDER OF ENTERPRISE OUR INNOVATION? FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD CHAIRMAN, SKILL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, STATE OF “To reach base of the pyramid ODISHA, INDIA AND SIGNATORY customers we need embedded solutions, from simple reading OF THE EYELLIANCE REPORT innovation – co-creating the right OUR glasses to ready-to-mount frames business model that works on PERSPECTIVE and corrective lenses to give “In large developing countries like multiple dimensions for different consumers a choice of attractive India with a huge challenge in stakeholders. What’s exciting at and affordable products. We’re also Essilor is that teams are probing to THERE’S NO ‘ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL’ terms of vision correction, it’s experimenting in portable, mobile understand what options could APPROACH important to innovate and take and digital distribution to extend advantage of size and scale. The work in various underserved At Essilor we innovate in multiple vision care into hard-to-reach Eye Mitra Optician program is not communities, and not just focusing ways to develop, adapt and communities. only tackling poor vision through on one single model. A long-term scale-up inclusive solutions for the strategy needs to engage Innovation also needs to be open: delivering eye care but also wide diversity of need, looking emerging markets and develop we explore every avenue within our creating infrastructure through afresh at everything from products mutual learning to get to a point industry and beyond. Through entrepreneurship. If you can and screening devices to where there is a choice of initiatives like our See Change demonstrate that a great idea distribution channels. sustainable options to create a Challenge, we’re harnessing the works, you have a better chance business infrastructure and user We begin by exploring specific collective intelligence of a to convince policymakers they demand. That also means creating needs, challenges and worldwide community of scientific can achieve significant change. and developing the market so that opportunities in each country, and technical experts to help us Partnership helps transform base of the pyramid customers whether it’s building local capacity find innovative refraction solutions problems into possibilities.“ perceive the value of eyeglasses to developing ways to screen and to accelerate the delivery of and vision correction and are ready equip base of the pyramid (BoP) primary vision care. to invest in buying them.” consumers on the spot. Our 2.5 Cross-sector collaboration is how New Vision Generation teams in we learn how to deliver our developing regions add their ambition of making healthy vision passion and expertise to the within reach of everyone. knowledge of local partners. Together we co-create and deploy WHAT’S EXCITING a range of inclusive business AT ESSILOR IS THAT programs from vision skills training TEAMS ARE PROBING to mobile vision services. The team TO UNDERSTAND WHAT at our BoP Innovation Lab ideate INNOVATION ALSO NEEDS OPTIONS COULD WORK IN and incubate different inclusive TO BE OPEN. WE EXPLORE VARIOUS UNDERSERVED business approaches, measuring EVERY AVENUE WITHIN OUR their impact and helping scale COMMUNITIES, AND NOT INDUSTRY AND BEYOND.” them up through connecting JUST FOCUSING ON ONE programs and partners with social SINGLE MODEL.” enterprises, foundations and development funds. FIND OUT MORE What we learn from the field drives ongoing innovation into making Find out more about quality products accessible to all. Enterprise for a The feedback of partners and Sustainable World wearers from our inclusive http://e4sw.org business programs has enabled us to develop a catalogue of

26 27 EYE MITRA: A PIONEERING BRIDGING THE VISUAL DIVIDE IN INDIA PROGRAM

Our flagship inclusive business initiative is the Eye Mitra program, 550m 28% launched in 2013 with the aim of PEOPLE IN INDIA OF 18-25 YEAR improving access to vision care for SUFFER FROM OLDS ARE UNCORRECTED UNEMPLOYED underserved communities in India. POOR VISION

Only 1 Eye Mitra (meaning friend of the eyes From initial pilots in Uttar Pradesh and $37bn QUALIFIED in Sanskrit) addresses three key issues: Rajasthan, we’ve expanded to create IS WASTED IN LOST OPTOMETRIST FOR EVERY 25,000 providing vision correction, developing a taskforce of 2,500 Eye Mitra at PRODUCTIVITY PEOPLE skills, and creating jobs. The program the end of 2016 who have helped recruits and trains people to set up a over 800,000 people in their local business screening vision needs and communities to see clearly. dispensing eyeglasses, bringing Essilor provides ongoing affordable eye care to rural and entrepreneurship training, logistics semi-urban areas. Through this we and marketing support to enable support two vital sections of local the Eye Mitra to grow their business, society – young people, who we help employ additional staff and run get the skills and qualifications they screening events to expand outreach DEVELOPING SKILLS, CREATING JOBS AND TACKLING POOR VISION need to earn a livelihood locally, as well to rural areas. as women, who we empower to contribute socially and economically to their communities. Skill building has been identified as one of the keys to India’s future economic development. With 65% of the THE EYE MITRA PROGRAM DEMONSTRATES HOW country’s population under 35 years, CORRECTING VISION CAN CONTRIBUTE TO A there’s an urgent need to develop skills COMMUNITY IN A VERY REAL AND SUSTAINABLE UNDER-EMPLOYED AND AND PROVIDED TRAINING TO BRING AFFORDABLE and create jobs to combat high youth WAY. IT BOTH TRANSFORMS INDIVIDUAL LIVES AND UNDER-REPRESENTED PEOPLE IN BASIC VISION SCREENING EYE-CARE TO RURAL AND RECRUITED AND SPECTACLE DISPENSING SEMI-URBAN COMMUNITIES unemployment and slow migration to ECONOMIC FUTURES THROUGH CREATING JOBS, cities in search of work. IMPROVING EARNINGS OR PRODUCTIVITY AND Essilor’s 2.5 New Vision Generation BENEFITING OTHER LOCAL BUSINESSES.” (2.5 NVG) teams have created relationships with a network of skills PROFESSOR KEVIN FRICK building agencies across 13 states in A PIONEERING PROGRAM EMPOWERING VICE DEAN FOR EDUCATION AT JOHNS HOPKINS India. Through their local knowledge CAREY BUSINESS SCHOOL, AND ADVISER ON INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES we’ve been able to fine-tune each THE DALBERG STUDY program to match regulatory frameworks and cultural sensitivities. Continue reading to discover the significant impact of this program

28 29 EMPOWERING WOMEN Jayshree Dhayban, who set up her shop ESSILOR’S EYE MITRA in Chakan, Pune in 2015, has created a business that benefits her life, her family’s PROGRAM and the health and well-being of her village. is featured as one of 20 case studies in the recent Fletcher University report on ‘Inclusive Innovators’ alongside global pioneers such as Unilever, Mastercard and Barclays I HAD A DREAM SINCE SCHOOL UPLIFTING LIVES THAT I HAD TO DO SOMETHING OF AND COMMUNITIES NOTE. FIRST I WAS A DAUGHTER, THEN A WIFE AND MOTHER. WITH Creating a sustainable vision care 92% infrastructure is having a positive MY EYE MITRA SHOP NOW I HAVE MY OWN IDENTITY AND SOME of female Eye Mitra impact at several levels. From a global reported positive perspective these impacts can be Watch the video of how Eye Mitra STANDING IN MY FAMILY. I WANT is changing lives in India changes in their directly linked to the UN sustainable TO MAKE THIS BUSINESS GROW.” social status development goals of no poverty, good health and well-being, quality education, decent work and economic growth, reduced inequalities and 55% sustainable communities. At a local of female wearers level, for individuals and communities, INCREASING INCOME cited increased CREATING JOBS, this is translated into increased income, self-confidence respect, community cohesion and AND RESPECT MAINTAINING empowerment. Illush Khan COMMUNITIES With planned expansion these Uttar Pradesh Raju N Rampure impacts can be even greater. A study Karnataka in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India conducted by Dalberg Global Development Advisors in 2015, reviewed the work of 400 Eye Mitra serving 70,000 spectacle wearers ALL MY LIFE I WANTED TO RUN A AFTER GRADUATING I TRIED TO across six districts. It concluded that BUSINESS. I INITIALLY WORKED GET A JOB BUT MY VILLAGE IS FAR if the Eye Mitra program were scaled WITH AN NGO BUT THEN HEARD FROM THE NEAREST CITY. I AM THE up to all districts in India, it would ABOUT THE EYE MITRA PROGRAM. ELDEST OF ALL MY SIBLINGS AND represent a global potential impact I’M VERY SATISFIED WITH THE ALL THE FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES of US$487 million a year. SKILLS THAT I HAVE LEARNED FELL ON ME. THANKS TO MY EYE Government investment in skills AT MY AGE. I LOOK ON THIS MITRA BUSINESS I AM TAKING building and job creation is driving AS MY PENSION PLAN.” GOOD CARE OF MY FAMILY WITH increasing interest in the Eye Mitra MY INCOME WITHOUT HAVING TO approach, with two state governments 9/10 RELOCATE TO THE CITY.” recently agreeing to finance large- feel more respected in scale deployment of the program in their communities the north of India. 64% With support from both individual of Eye Mitra saw an 15% donors to development agencies and uplift in earnings of Eye Mitra reported government decision-makers we aim returning home to scale-up this inclusive business from cities to 39% model in India and other developing become an Eye Mitra of Eye Mitra found regions to create a workforce of 10,000 59% work through our Eye Mitra by 2020. of new wearers said program they were more productive

30 31 VISION AMBASSADORS: A SIMPLE SOLUTION THAT DELIVERS IMMEDIATE RESULTS

Our Eye Mitra experiences Vision ambassadors receive one day of training to learn the basic skills required in India led us to explore to carry out near-vision screening and other ways to develop to sell over-the-counter reading glasses THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE vision care through and sunglasses. A key strength of this program has been finding the right VISUALLY IMPAIRED BECAUSE increasing the number partners including eye care hospitals, THEY DON’T HAVE PROPER ~2,000 of primary vision care skills-building agencies, local NGOs INFORMATION. MY ROLE IS vision ambassadors are providers. and other inclusive businesses, to tailor TO REACH THE PUBLIC THAT at work at the end of 2016, the program to local healthcare NEED THIS.” extending vision care into In 2015 we launched the Vision contexts and needs. It’s also driven underserved communities Ambassador program: an inclusive innovation to develop simple tools to business model that provides access screen vision as well as new ways to to affordable eye care where optical deliver eyeglasses at the point of need, outlets simply don’t exist, while helping whether it’s portable packs of easy-to- to improve the livelihoods of people dispense eyeglasses to new digital in their communities. distribution channels. FROM RURAL VILLAGES 257m TO MEGACITIES people spread over Over the past two years in China, we’ve 1,000 islands creates a major challenge in been working to train several hundreds ensuring adequate services of vision ambassadors with some of the for Indonesia’s growing largest private hospital groups population operating in provinces where rural populations don’t have access to eye care providers. These vital primary eye care workers help bring vision correction to people’s doorsteps in remote villages, providing a valuable From our experience in China, Brazil provinces, with the aim of training MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES EXTENDING REACH IN INDONESIA service to many elderly people who and India, we’ve also begun work with people from a variety of backgrounds AND FRIENDS HERE HAD THE aren’t able to undertake a 300 partners to train vision ambassadors With 257 million people spread over to do vision screening and provide SAME PROBLEM STARTING kilometres journey to the nearest in Indonesia, Cambodia, Kenya and thousands of islands and an acute corrective glasses. provincial city. Ivory Coast. At the end of 2016 nearly FROM A CERTAIN AGE, THEY shortage of eye care professionals and Maria Seko, a teacher at a kindergarten 2,000 vision ambassadors are at JUST COULDN’T SEE THINGS UP In densely populated cities like Rio optical stores, Indonesia has a major school, has seen first-hand the vision work, extending vision care into CLOSE. A PAIR OF GLASSES CAN where healthcare networks can’t keep challenge in ensuring adequate difficulties of older colleagues. Maria underserved communities. EASILY HELP THEM TO REGAIN pace with population growth, we’ve services for its growing population. now personally wears the glasses that been developing a network of vision she sells, which is why many of her THEIR ABILITY TO SEE CLEARLY We’ve recently partnered with local AND BE FULLY PRODUCTIVE.” ambassadors to help bridge the gap. Watch the Vision Ambassador NGO Besi Pa’e to expand the vision customers trust her advice. As a vision ambassador in a favela in China video ambassador program in Nusa the north of Rio, Rosana helps people Tenggara Timor, one of Indonesia’s FIND OUT MORE in her community get a pair of most economically disadvantaged affordable glasses. “There are people Watch the Vision Ambassador who are visually impaired because they Brazil video Read more about the Vision don’t have proper information. My role Ambassadors in Indonesia is to reach the public that need this.”

32 33 CREATING AND HOSPITALS AND VISION CLINICS BRAZIL: ON THE ROAD TO EQUIP CONSUMERS In India, we support a number of SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE specialist eye care hospitals to extend In Brazil, there simply aren’t enough DELIVERY MECHANISMS services into rural areas. The Siliguri ophthalmologists to serve the Greater Lions Hospital, the largest eye estimated 30 million people who care provider in the north of Bengal, is require vision correction. We’re expanding into underserved locations supporting CIES GLOBAL (Global through a series of outreach services Center for Education and Health with partners, from vision screening Integration) to take vision care where camps to tele-ophthalmology units. it’s needed. The Visao do Futuro bus, We’re working with Siliguri to develop a with a full suite of ophthalmic The simple steps of having one’s eyesight network of primary vision workers equipment, will screen up to 25,000 based on the success of our Eye Mitra people per year and provide corrective checked and getting equipped with glasses program. In November 2016, a first solutions from Essilor’s 2.5 NVG remains beyond the reach of many batch of students received training in product range to an estimated 8,000 individuals, and not just for economic reasons. refraction, lens finishing and dispensing individuals in and around São Paulo. to go back to their villages to provide BY EXTENDING OUR MEDICAL We work creatively to overcome all the local vision care. The project aims to MEXICO: ON TRACK TO DELIVER EYE create a local infrastructure of some CARE ACROSS THE COUNTRY SERVICES TO PROVIDE barriers, exploring how best to combine 300 Eye Mitra serving the surrounding OPHTHALMIC CARE AND different inclusive approaches, across vision tea garden areas, providing a strong It’s estimated that Mexico needs an GLASSES, WE WILL BE ABLE referral system for eye care conditions additional 12,000 optometrists to TO CREATE TOUCH POINTS skills training, products and service delivery. needing medical treatment as well as a satisfy the country’s eye care needs, much needed service locally. leaving many people in rural areas with WITH PATIENTS IN DIFFERENT no access to basic services. We’ve LOCATIONS AND DELIVER THE collaborated with Dr Vagón, a VISION CARE THEY NEED.” GOING MOBILE pioneering health train that travels Mobile refraction vans that take vision across Mexico, to ensure people can DR ROBERTO KIKAWA care into hard-to-reach communities benefit from vision care services CIES GLOBAL DIRECTOR was one of the first inclusive programs wherever they live. Launched by we pioneered in India. Today, we are Fundación Grupo México in 2014, supporting our partners to operate a Dr Vagón has provided free medical fleet of 40 specially equipped mobile care services for over 90,000 people vision clinics. These mobile resources from some of Mexico’s most isolated FIND OUT MORE serve two important roles: educating populations. In addition to general people about vision health and health, dental or dermatology services, Find out more about Dr Kikawa’s equipping them to see clearly through this 14-car mobile clinic has added work with CIES Global providing eye exams and, in many vision care, enabling patients to benefit cases, finished prescription glasses the from a vision test and get equipped, same day. choosing from a wide range of Essilor reading, corrective or sunglasses.

34 35 HARNESSING INNOVATION AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE 50m lives improved by 2020 OUR GOAL

We continue to take an innovative approach LOOKING AHEAD from our products, to how we harness digital, We have set ourselves an ambitious to how we gather insight and ideas. goal, to improve 50 million lives by 200 2020, by expanding access to models of eyeglasses affordable corrective and protective for base of pyramid vision care. We know that this is consumers possible, and that the impact once achieved will be significant. It is this fact that continues to drive us to scale up our actions. But we cannot do this alone. A DIVERSE PRODUCT PORTFOLIO CONNECTING VIA MOBILE OPEN INNOVATION We rely on our partners, employees, TECHNOLOGIES First-time wearers are just as We’re open to any idea that can help experts and communities to shape and demanding on product quality as they We’re also exploiting mobile technology us facilitate universal access to vision deliver our activities. are sensitive to price. We’ve harnessed to bridge the gap between patient and care. In June 2016 we launched the See our R&D and manufacturing expertise provider. Vision ambassadors in Brazil Change Challenge to find innovative to develop tailored and affordable use a digital app on their phones that solutions to speed up the delivery of solutions to ‘base of the pyramid’ has been developed to help them vision care in underserved regions by consumers. Since 2013, our 2.5 NVG read a prescription and propose the enabling more people to be trained to WE ARE ON THE VERGE teams have been developing a appropriate lenses and frames. They become primary vision care workers. catalogue of products to facilitate the are also leveraging their phones to OF A ‘SEE’ CHANGE! We’ve selected three innovators from a dispensing of glasses at the point-of- raise awareness of vision screenings THROUGH A CONTINUED worldwide community of scientific and need. A key solution is Ready2Clip™ they organize – using their own social FOCUS ON INNOVATION technical experts who are developing – frames and ready-to-mount lenses media profiles or calling local ‘digital AND PARTNERSHIP WE’RE prototypes that we will evaluate during that enable a pair of glasses to be marketers’ in their communities to 2017 for potential support from Essilor CONFIDENT THAT WE prepared to an individual’s prescription help advertise their work via extensive with development contracts to build CAN DELIVER LIFE-CHANGING and delivered on the spot. The WhatsApp networks. and scale their solutions. VISION CARE TO EVERYONE Ready2Clip range is part of an Elsewhere the 2.5 NVG teams are WHO NEEDS IT IN THIS WORLD. extensive portfolio of high-quality We believe that innovative low-cost leveraging cloud-based technologies attractive eyeglasses for all wearer refraction solutions will make it to simplify product ordering and profiles – allowing consumers to easier to train new eye care workers. improve efficiency of supply chain GET TO KNOW US BETTER choose an option that both fits their management. One new app helps visual needs and their tastes. Our 2.5 small NGOs to access the full 2.5 NVG WWW.ESSILORSEECHANGE.COM NVG catalogue is being used offering online and track their order in Contact us if you’d like to partner to extensively by our partners in the field real time. Another app is being rolled improve vision and change lives as well as by the 4,000 primary vision out among Eye Mitra in India to help care workers we’ve helped to train. @SEECHANGE4ALL them manage their stock and monitor Join the conversation on visual health their sales. €300,000 prize money in the See Change Challenge

36 37 Designed and produced by SEE CHANGE SALTERBAXTER MSLGROUP By continuing to work in partnership, Written by Libby Wilson tailoring our approach and delivering Photos: Essilor International image library/ innovative solutions, we will achieve Scott Rotzoll/Claire Eggers/Mahisa Murti/ our ambition to scale-up vision care Suasti Lye/David Teng/Renato Stockler/ for underserved communities across Mathias Magg the world. 2.5 New Vision Generation™, Vision For Life™, Essilor Vision Foundation™, Kids Vision For We thank all the people who Life™, Ready2Clip™, Eye Mitra™ and Vision contributed to this report through their Ambassador™ are trademarks of Essilor personal accounts of how they are International. Vision Impact Institute™ is a driving the change we all wish to see. trademark of the Vision Impact Institute. © Essilor International April 2017 This document is printed on Heaven 42 which has been independently certified according to the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC). Printed in the UK by Cover: August 2016 – Essilor Vision Pureprint using its alcofree® and pureprint® Foundation worked with Sightsavers and environmental printing technology, and other partners to bring good vision to vegetable inks were used throughout. local children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Pureprint is a CarbonNeutral® company.