Restoring Sight, Restoring Lives: The $10M Campaign to End Preventable Blindness
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Vision for All: The Life-Changing Power of a Simple Donation
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living series. Today's show is brought to you by Aura Frames. Aura Frames: the gift that brings your favorite holiday traditions and memories to life every day.
🎙️ This is our annual charitable giving show, and we're proud to announce that our 2025 giving selection is the life-changing vision restoration campaign from The Fred Hollows Foundation, supported by Causeway's $10 million matching challenge.Today, we're talking about something that affects millions—and could very well affect someone you know and love. Because around the world, more than 43 million people are blind—and the shocking truth is, nine out of ten of those cases are entirely preventable.
Imagine being unable to see your grandchildren's faces… or having to stop working or reading simply because your sight failed—and no one was there to help. That's the reality in places like Ethiopia and Cambodia, where basic eye care is often out of reach.
But it doesn't have to stay that way.
Joining us today are two remarkable people: Andrea Galan, Executive Director of The Fred Hollows Foundation USA—one of the world's most trusted vision-restoration organizations—and Doug Heske, CEO of Causeway, whose platform is helping fuel a $10 million matching campaign to restore sight to tens of thousands.
We'll hear how cataract surgeries costing less than $25 are getting people back to work, how a simple pair of eyeglasses can keep a child in school, and how every dollar you give right now can go twice as far thanks to this match.
And we'll ask something simple: How can we help?
This is about dignity, legacy, and action. It's about doing something measurable and meaningful—especially at the end of the year, when so many of us are thinking about how to give back.
So stay tuned—this one's personal, powerful, and filled with hope.
Here now is our conversation with Andrea Galan and Doug Heske.
🎙️ I'm your host, Paul Vogelzang, and this is The Not Old Better Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. |
| 0:12.0 | The show for all of us who aren't old, we're better. |
| 0:15.0 | Each week we'll interview superstores, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, all related to this wonderful experience of getting better, |
| 0:24.4 | not just older. Now, here's your host, the award-winning Paul Vogelzang. |
| 0:33.4 | Thank you and welcome. The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living series. |
| 0:38.6 | Today's show is brought to you by Aura Frames. |
| 0:41.2 | Oura Frames, the gift that brings your favorite holiday traditions and memories to life every day. |
| 0:49.0 | This is our annual charitable giving show, and we're proud to announce that our 2025 giving selection |
| 0:56.0 | is the life-changing vision restoration campaign from the Fred Hollows Foundation, supported by |
| 1:02.3 | Causeway's $10 million matching challenge. Today we're talking about something that affects millions |
| 1:08.1 | and could very well affect someone you know in love |
| 1:11.1 | because around the world more than 43 million people are blind. And the shocking truth is, |
| 1:17.9 | nine out of ten of those cases are entirely preventable. Imagine being unable to see your |
| 1:25.5 | grandchildren's faces. Just be impossible for me. |
| 1:29.3 | Or having to stop working or reading simply because your sight failed. |
| 1:34.3 | And no one was there to help. |
| 1:36.3 | That's the reality in places like Ethiopia and Cambodia, |
| 1:39.3 | and Cambodia, where basic eye care is often out of reach. |
| 1:43.3 | But it doesn't have to stay that way. |
| 1:45.5 | Joining us today are two remarkable people, |
| 1:48.8 | Andrea Sanaverino Gallin and Doug Heske. |
| 1:52.3 | Andrea Gallen is the executive director |
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