Mission for Vision was founded by Ian Squire in 2003 as a means to improving the lives of those living in the the poorest regions in the developing world. Every year he assembles teams to travel to remote areas to carry out clinics and provide glasses, medication and cataract operations 

 
Old glasses are collected from customers in the practice and are recycled to be used on the missions. Ian has also developed a portable frame and lens system which enables the correction of complex refractive error in areas where there are no optical facilities.

  

So far Mission for Vision has worked in Uganda, Ghana, Guatemala, Burundi and Mozambique.