Community & Global Outreach

The Polar Plunge took place at the Virginia Beach oceanfront this past Saturday. According to the Virginian Pilot, some 3,312 people took the plunge and raised $1,250,000 for the Special Olympics. The Beach Eye Care Polar Plunge Team raised $1303! ... Read more »

Two thousand poor and low income patients served within Surigao del Sur. Thank you friends, partners and stakeholders for your continued support. May the Lord continue to inspire us for the years to come. We are now open to accept requests for eye care outreach and mission projects for 2013. Many thanks. ... Read more »

Beach Eye Care donated over 500 cans of food and $200 in cash to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia! Donations will be accepted at all three Beach Eye Care locations throughout the holiday season. ... Read more »

August 6, 2012 Beach Eye Care recognized by The Council of Garden Clubs of Virginia Beach for consistently maintaining an attractive and litter free premises. Click here to view certificate ... Read more »

Setting foot in Africa in June to help our Ghanaian brothers and sisters proved to be an impressionable experience that was both remarkably rewarding and profoundly educational. The Neatrour family (all 5) and Andrew (one of Kristin's fellow medical school students), with the help of Unite for Sight (UFS) and Montero Medical Missions, teamed up to deliver vision to those needing provisions as simple as reading glasses or eye drops to providing improved sight through cataract or pterygium ... Read more »

Y-Not Pizza donated $300 to the upcoming Montero Medical Mission to Ghana, Africa. The Neatrour family has succeeded in raising over $9,700 to provide much needed medical care. ... Read more »

A total of 2 tons of paper was shredded. Read More Learn more at Shred-it ... Read more »

June 23-30, 2012 Montero Medical Missions will partner with Unite for Sight to provide eye care services to patients living in extreme poverty in Ghana. From June 22 - July 1, 2012, Dr. Peyton Neatrour will lead the mission team that presently consists of his wife and their three children, all of who will be Unite for Sight Global Impact Fellows. At one of the five eye clinics managed by Unite for Sight, the Neatrour family will volunteer alongside local Ghanaian medical professionals and local ... Read more »

Hampton Roads VisionWalk – May 6th, 2012 VisionWalk is a signature fundraising event of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Over 10 Million Americans are affected by blinding retinal diseases including macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome. The Foundation Fighting Blindness is working to find treatments and cures for these devastating diseases. By funding leading edge research in area such as genetics, gene therapy, transplantation, artificial retinal implants and ... Read more »

2012 Polar Plunge The Polar Plunge® Winter Festival is Special Olympics Virginia's largest fundraiser, attracting more than 10,000 people to an otherwise deserted beachfront in February. Individuals and teams, alongside our athletes and thousands of community members, experience heartwarming and bone chilling extremes as they take the plunge into the icy Atlantic Ocean in the height of winter! Polar Plunge 2012 raised over $1.12 million dollars – the largest amount raised in their 20 year ... Read more »