Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why Does Vision World Wide Exist?

Vision World Wide provides medical information and emotional encouragement to the vision impaired and their families, serves as a communication link between the vision impaired and their caregiving community, serves as a consumer protection organization against unscrupulous predators who victimize, plunder, or otherwise prey upon unsuspecting and uninformed victims of vision loss, and aims to enlighten the general public about issues, trends and treatments related to vision loss.

2. Why Did Vision World Wide Get Started?

Because of the founder's personal experience with the trauma of going from perfect sight to total deaf-blindness in a three-month period at age 16, followed by some 22-25 years of coping with total blindness and severe hearing loss (only helped with hearing instruments) during which time she completed high school, secured a college education, and achieved permanent employment. Consequently, she understood the fear and anxiety others feel when vision loss occurs and wanted to do all she could to help everyone know there is hope when vision fails.

With the graying of the population, vision loss has reached epidemic proportions. Age-Related Macular Degeneration alone has already made 1.7 million sufferers legally blind and in just 20 years some 6 million more are expected to go blind. Knowing what to do to enhance everyday living even with vision loss is crucial to individuals maintaining their independence and meaningful lifestyle. She believes she can and is making a significant difference in helping those with failing eyesight overcome the frustrations, develop the necessary coping skills, and accept the challenges life has to offer.

Throughout her entire vocational life, vacation and personal days were devoted to volunteer work in the blindness community, state-wide, national, and international. Naturally, this volunteerism continued following early retirement due to cancer radiation treatment side-effects. Many colleagues and subscribers to her journalistic endeavors through the years encouraged her to expand her work. Thus, Vision World Wide, Inc. was born.

3. Where Is the Organization Located?

At 5707 Brockton Drive - Suite 302, Indianapolis, IN 46220-5481.

4. Staff

Until funding is developed to hire at least a part-time administrator, all day-to-day office activities, programs and services are performed by one full-time volunteer (the founder) and 4 part-time volunteers.

5. Governing Board

Vision World Wide, Inc. is governed by a 13-member Board of Directors, all volunteers, who reside throughout the U.S. William Corbin is the Board Chairman.

6. What Are the Primary Services Offered By Vision World Wide?

Please see our Services page.

7. What Makes Vision World Wide Unique?

The uniqueness of Vision World Wide lies in the scope and personalized nature of its service delivery system, its availability 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, its positioning as a consumer protection non-profit organization against misrepresentation and fraud, (because the "victim" will do anything, buy anything, go anywhere in the world" to have vision restored), and the variety of information and resources shared in the pages of its journal are not available in any other one single publication.