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Charitable fundraising has launched! | Posted Thursday 22nd September 2011 |
Just to remind you, we are undertaking a challenge that most of us would find very hard to do but given Alan’s visual impairment this really is a unique opportunity to be part of something special. We most likely won't find ourselves at the Pole again, and it would be an honor for us to make you a part of our expedition.
Check out some previously unreleased photos of the team in Business Week.
Madhuben Solanki from Sanlod, India, has her vision tested after a cataract operation
Image © Peter Caton / Sightsavers
Well you all knew it was coming, but here is your chance to show your support for the Polar Vision expedition and our charities and donate!
The success of the charity fundraising is really important to the whole team and so we hope that you will get behind us and tell your friends, family and wider networks so that they can support us too!
We really do feel like this is a team effort so we’ve come up with ways in which you can choose to engage with the team. To raise money we are ‘selling’ things like Postcards from the Pole, Calls from the Continent and the chance to ‘own’ a day of our expedition! Alternatively, you can just choose to donate.
We want to reiterate that through corporate sponsorship, private donors and our own funds our trip costs are fully met! Therefore all proceeds from money donated through the website will go to our charities, Sightsavers International and Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Polar Vision is a registered 501c3 non-profit, so for US taxpayers, all donations are tax deductible. If you’re not in the US, you can still donate in US dollars as long as you have a visa or mastercard, though you may get charged a small foreign currency fee by your bank. Sorry about that.
There are links to our Indiegogo page (our fundraising partner) all over our website, but if you want to donate right now (and why wouldn’t you?) you can go here.
All contributions, big and small are welcome. It costs over $42,000 to raise and train a guide dog but Guide Dogs manages to give them to the visually impaired for free. Yet it costs only $10 for an operation to relieve the pain of trichiasis (a condition caused by parasites where the eyelid curves into the eyeball).
We hope that you will be.
Sincerest thanks from the whole Polar Vision team.
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22nd September 2011
Charitable fundraising has launched!
Well you all knew it was coming, but here is your chance to show your support for the Polar Vision expedition and our charities and donate! The success of the charity fundraising is really im... read more
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