OneDollarGlasses (club)
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| legal form | non-profit registered association |
| founding | June 2012 |
| founder | Martin Aufmuth |
| Seat | gain |
| Action space | Worldwide |
| people | Martin Aufmuth, Brigitte Weis, Karsten Daniel |
| sales | 3,238,294 euros (2019) |
| Employees | > 200 |
| Volunteers | > 300 |
| Website | www.eindollarbrille.de |
EinDollarBrille (Association) is a non-profit German development aid -Verein that many of the possible of Martin Aufmuth the world designed for the population of the poorest countries, there manufacturable and affordable there EinDollarBrillen wants to drive in those countries.
background
According to a study by the WHO, 158 million people suffer from myopia and around 544 million would need reading glasses. Many of them live on less than one US dollar a day and either have no access to visual aids at all or they do not have the money to buy “normal” glasses (from around 40 US dollars). The estimated loss of income that arises from people unable to work or no longer able to work and the fact that young people cannot learn anything is around 202 billion US dollars a year for the 158 million myopic people alone. That is more than all development aid paid worldwide , which in 2011 was, for example, 134.04 billion US dollars.
society
The OneDollarGlasses e. V. is a denominational and politically independent, non-profit and non-governmental aid organization for development cooperation.
history
The OneDollarGlasses e. V. was founded in June 2012. It is based in Erlangen and is recognized as a non-profit organization.
aims
In cooperation with local partners, the association is building structures in developing countries that are intended to ensure that people are financially independent in the long term with cheap, high-quality, locally produced glasses.
organs
The association is managed by a three-person board. Martin Aufmuth has been the first member of the board since 2012, Alex Armbruster and the treasurer Brigitte Weis are the second board members. According to § 8 of the statutes, the organs of the association are the general assembly and the board of directors. The function of these organs is described in § 9 and § 10 of the statutes.
Members and employees
As of January 1, 2018, two board members and two other employees work full-time, one board member and five employees part-time and eleven employees on the basis of a mini-job for the association. In addition, more than 200 volunteers are committed to the goals of the association in Germany alone.
donate
The OneDollarGlasses e. V. has so far financed its work mainly through donations. In 2017 the income amounted to 2,359,362 euros.
Awards
In 2017, Martin Aufmuth was awarded the Bavarian State Medal for Social Services as the founder of OneDollarGlasses. Martin Aufmuth was also appointed an Ashoka Fellow. Ashoka is the largest and oldest organization promoting social entrepreneurship worldwide. At the end of 2017, the OneDollarGlasses also received the Next Economy Award in the “People” category.
work in Germany
The organizational structures in Germany were optimized in 2014; Work processes were systematized, machines and special tools were further developed.
In the Altmühltal workshops , a facility for people with disabilities , there is a new central warehouse for the material that the workshop employees pack and dispatch.
method
| Data on 9 project countries (as of 2013) | ||||
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| country | GDP * | Rank** | Residents | Area (km²) |
| Malawi | 223 | 1 | 14,212,000 | 118,480 |
| Burkina Faso | 729 | 21st | 16,751,000 | 274,400 |
| Ethiopia | 542 | 10 | 96,633,000 | 1,104,300 |
| Rwanda | 698 | 19th | 11,400,000 | 26,338 |
| Benin | 805 | 23 | 8,971,000 | 112,622 |
| Bangladesh | 904 | 26th | 161,000,000 | 147,570 |
| Nicaragua | 1840 | 50 | 5,728,000 | 129,494 |
| Bolivia | 2700 | 59 | 10,060,000 | 1,098,581 |
| Brazil | 11311 | 125 | 202,740,000 | 8,514,215 |
| * Gross domestic product (GDP) 2013 per capita in US dollars ** Ranking worldwide according to the lowest GDP per capita |
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In many countries with low-income populations, organizers and helpers have been and are sought through contacts with the health ministries and trained by German volunteer development workers. For each country, depending on the legal framework and personal supporters, different strategies are used to build up glasses production and to distribute them.
These countries had a total of 511 million inhabitants in 2013 (for comparison: 505 million inhabitants in the EU) on an area of 11 million km² (for comparison: the Asian part of Russia comprises 13 million km²).
The sustainability of the supply is to be ensured in all target countries by financing all running costs from the sales of the glasses. Donations should only be used to set up and expand the local structures and to provide the tools.
This not only ensures that people with poor vision receive inexpensive glasses, but also that jobs are created for producers and sellers.
Ideally, the system wears itself after a certain start-up time. The glasses are prefabricated in three sizes (for different interpupillary distances) by trained locals. For this purpose, disabled people are preferred who would otherwise have no chance at all. These physically disabled employees are particularly committed.
When selling on site, the patient still has to choose the colors of the jewelery balls and the shrink tube; then all that remains is to choose and insert the glasses and adjust the length of the temples; only one journey is necessary.
Priority countries
Activities have advanced furthest in Malawi and Burkina Faso.
Malawi
Malawi , a country with the poorest population in the world. The majority of the population there has less than one US dollar per head per day. Since January 2015, in cooperation with ophthalmologists and opticians, a network has been created on site to distribute free glasses to schoolchildren and start selling glasses. A team - accompanied by RTL - has been preparing this on site since September 2014. a. glasses free of charge for ametropia pupils in a school. There are few textbooks in Malawi. Knowledge is only conveyed through what the teacher writes on the blackboard: If you can't read it, you don't get much from the lesson. RTL broadcast its contribution (as part of “Stern-TV”) on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at around 11 p.m.
In Malawi, glasses may only be sold to people who can present a prescription from an optometrist. That is why the association has financed the training for 10 optometrists so far, who are now authorized to prescribe after their training. In this way, a multiplier effect for spectacle prescriptions is achieved. The project is called “Good Vision Glasses” there.
Burkina Faso
The first glasses were handed in in Burkina Faso in 2013. Since then, over 60,000 people have been provided with glasses, 140,000 eye tests have been carried out and 65 employees currently have permanent jobs there
Other countries with activities
Ethiopia
The first training sessions took place in Ethiopia in 2014 .
Rwanda
Eyewear production also began in Rwanda . Trained one-dollar eyeglass opticians from Rwanda were also employed as trainers in Burkina Faso and Malawi.
Benin
Training also began in Benin in 2014 .
Bangladesh
The first training courses in Bangladesh took place in 2014.
Nicaragua
In 2014, the training of locals began in Nicaragua .
Bolivia
In Bolivia , eyeglass production began in 2014 at two locations and since then over 45,000 ametropolitan people have been helped.
Brazil
In Brazil , glasses must be available in increments of 0.25 diopters - this is why the range has been adapted and is now available for a range from −10 to +8 diopters. Suitable homeless people from São Paulo have been trained to make glasses. The Brazilian student organization “Enactus Insper” helped. People in a very remote region on the Amazon were also provided with cheap glasses.
Web links
- EinDollarGrille website of the association, see also annual reports and media coverage (link collection)
- EinDollarGrille Schweiz Website of the partner organization in Switzerland
- OneDollarGlasses USA Website of the partner organization in USA
Individual evidence
- ↑ TR Fricke et al .: Global cost of correcting vision impairment from uncorrected refractive error Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012; 90: 728-738 (PDF).
- ↑ EinDollarBrille eV Germany, eingollarbrille.de
- ↑ Global strategy eingollarbrille.de. See also the linked strategy paper (PDF) from May 2017.
- ↑ a b Our team einollarbrille.de
- ↑ Articles of Association of March 5, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i publications of the one dollar glasses. In: OneDollarGlasses. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
- ↑ World Economic Outlook Database, April 2014 (publication by the IMF , see also list of countries according to gross domestic product per capita )