What is Amigos Eye Care?

Amigos Eye Care is a non-profit organization of students, doctors and lay people affiliated with Pacific University College of Optometry in Forest Grove, Oregon. Amigos is dedicated to providing quality vision care at no cost to underserved people in the Portland area and throughout the world.

Since its establishment in 1975, Amigos has grown to become one of the largest eye care providing organizations in the world, bringing services to thousands of people at home and abroad. With a collection of more than forty thousand pairs of glasses, Amigos recycles spectacles to individuals unable to obtain eye care. Under the supervision of Doctors of Optometry, Amigos members identify and find treatment for serious eye conditions which might otherwise result in severe vision loss or blindness.

Amigos is affiliated with VOSH International, whose primary mission is to facilitate the provision and sustainability of vision care worldwide to people who can neither afford nor obtain such care.

In December, 2001, VOSH partnered with the World Health Organization and pledged to eliminate preventable blindness by the year 2020.