Partners
Financial or in-kind donations.
Human competence and know-how. Everyone is involved
Fondation KRYS Group
A long-standing optical partner of Voir La Vie, the corporate foundation of France's leading eyewear manufacturer, chaired by Anne Cristini and managed by Elise Rey, has selected our association's programs and joined forces to develop them. In addition to past financial and material support, we have now expanded our partnership to include the creation of new joint projects, such as a motivational challenge for opticians to encourage their participation in training missions, and the implementation of the "Make it Easy" protocol in Benin, Guinea, and Senegal.
Solidarité HK
It is with the company of opticians Olivier HESTEAU and Serge KLEINKOFF that we created the “Solidarité HK” Challenge which allowed dozens of volunteers to conduct training sessions for our Guinean staff each year in our 3 centers. optics.
At the same time, the Breton group also provided us with pediatric autorefractometers, a small portable device essential for conducting our screenings in schools.
Team Mirabelle
Thierry CALDERON is the manager of a group of optician stores in Avignon and its region. He worked with his employees to lead the training of staff at our optical center in Matam, Senegal.
Field missions and remote teletraining to acquire the skills necessary to examine a refraction.
Groupe Torrilhon
This group of opticians from Lyon and Alsace has just joined the family of our KRYS Group partners in the training of our local teams.
It is in Benin that the volunteers of the company led by Vincent and Laurent TORRILHON operate. With management missions and remote teletraining within our Pobè unit.
Dubor Group
A new group of opticians from the southwest has joined us to conduct training missions for our Senegalese team.
Based in Rodez, the Aveyron-based family business, founded in 1953, is now run by Céline and her brother Guillaume. It has no fewer than 17 establishments and a significant number of employees who are eager to pass on their expertise to Matam.
The Mirettes of Marseille
This optician from Marseille has been a partner of the association since the opening of our optical sector. Fabienne PENTAGROSSA, the manager, has been actively involved in helping us develop the optical center in Pobè (Benin).
Fabienne is an administrator of Voir la Vie
Optical vision
Based in Bondy, this optician assists in the production of frames ordered during missions to Benin. Under the guidance of optician Amandine Lepage, the frames, some with lenses featuring special treatments, are assembled in their workshop.
Amandine is an administrator of Voir la Vie and was part of the team of opticians who set up the optical center in Pobè and participated in the creation of the Digital Reference, e-learning tools of the association.
Ophthalmic Company
Ophtalmic Compagnie is one of the largest lens manufacturers in France. Founded in 1986, it is located in Villepinte. Charli Tamsot, its current president, supports our work through an active partnership.
The manufacturer helps us in supplying lenses with special treatments.
Essilor Instruments
Essilor's national sales management, represented by Pascal GARCIA, provides us with invaluable assistance in acquiring optical mounting equipment.
The mounting equipment in our optical centers must be robust and have minimal onboard electronics. Pascal is opening up his network to us to identify the most suitable automatic grinders.
MOWGLI Endowment Fund
A wonderful agreement has been signed between our NGO and this brand new Fund, created in 2025, to support our actions for 3 years until 2027.
This fund aims to combat poverty in all its forms and to promote social inclusion. It was initiated by business leaders in the PACA region.
French Eye Bank
Through its Regional Centre in Provence, the French Eye Bank appreciated the eye care development actions that our association is implementing in West Africa and decided to support us.
Thanks to its Vice-President, Jean-Michel MERLIHOT and its administrative correspondent, Jean-Claude ROSE for their commitment to our side.
EssilorLuxottica Foundation
ONESIGHT, the EssilorLuxottica group foundation, is supporting us with in-kind donations. Thank you to its director, Frédéric CORBASSON.
Through Nafissatou MBODJI, the Foundation provides sunglasses frames, cases, in short, all the consumables necessary for the delivery of our equipment to optical centers.
Fondation Maurice & Ute Genoyer
The Foundation of Maurice Génoyer, Founding President of the Enfants du Monde association with which we have collaborated for many years, came to support our African projects and particularly programs affecting the improvement of children's living conditions.
Centrimex
Through Stéphanie HADDAD, the French group organizing international transport based in Vitrolles, is committed alongside our association to transport all ophthalmological and optical equipment to our areas of action in West Africa.
A valuable relay in handling customs formalities and the road transport of equipment.
Lions
Is there a need to recall the historic involvement of this service club in promoting sight with its Sight First labeled actions?
The creation of Bus de la Vue is a co-production of the Lions Club of Cassis-Les Calanques, supported by the national and international Lions Foundations and supported by two associations which share management: Vue et Santé pour tous and Voir La Vie.
Rotary
Voir La Vie's relationship with Rotary dates back to the 2000s with the acquisition of an expensive operating microscope for our Kankan unit (Guinea). The Marseille St-Michel Club is extremely loyal to us and strives to build a lasting relationship with us based on trust and results.
A complicity due to the commitment of the presidents who succeeded one another and mainly to Abde GACEM, the club's driving force.
Sun Valley
Designing, manufacturing and marketing quality sportswear does not prohibit an altruistic soul. Edouard TERZIBACHIAN, CEO-founder of this Marseille-based company, regularly offers Voir La Vie his stock of unsold items.
A great opportunity to transform what is no longer needed into a financial resource to help those who need it to serve.
Sugar
Like its colleague Sun Valley, the Marseille company SUGAR offers our association a very large stock of clothing and accessories, the proceeds of which considerably help to finance our humanitarian programs.
American Vintage
The young Marseille ready-to-wear brand is the third to trust us and help us by donating clothing stocks that we use to finance our actions.
Corporate Sport Organization (CSO)
The sporting events creation company, chaired by Pierre LUSINCHI and directed by Thibault PAGNIER, allows us to benefit from the generous donations of participants in the Medigames, World Medical Games that it organizes, during their online registrations.
They participate in our actions
Medical Association to Save the Eye (AMSO)
This Guinean NGO, led by Moussa NABE, has acquired great expertise in carrying out advanced strategy missions throughout the country. Our two NGOs have brought together their skills for greater effectiveness on the ground. The latest in our joint actions for the benefit of the indigent population was the risky opening of a care unit in N'Zérékoré in Forestry Guinea.
Guinea Solidarity Provence (GSP)
Through the complicity that has always been shown between the association based in Chateauneuf-le-Rouge and our NGO, the creation of containers has become simpler for everyone. We send to Guinea the equipment and consumables essential to our ophthalmological units and our optical centers. Philippe CORDUANT, omnipresent President, and his treasurer Alain CANTON, are no strangers to the effectiveness of our joint actions!
Agir pour le Développement de Matam (ADM)
It is with the Parisian diaspora of Matam, united around the ADM association, that we built the project to create the optical center of Matam, in Senegal. Abdoul DIAW, president, Abou NDIONGUE, secretary general and the energetic Nafissatou MBODJI are the administrative relay and the pilots of the creation of this very first associative center in the country.
Vue et Santé pour Tous (VST)
This association was created from scratch by Dr. Serge SFERLAZZO and Jean GORREE to support the implementation of the Bus de la Vue project. Both members of the Lions Club, they raised the necessary funds from their service club to finance the acquisition and commissioning of the equipment. Voir La Vie co-manages the project in its conceptual, logistical, operational, and medical aspects. Claude BARESTE handles the project's secretarial duties, and Jean-Luc RENAUDIN serves as coordinator/driver. Drs. Corinne PINON, Georges RIOUX, and Bertrand ARNOUX conduct the eye examinations with the assistance of Françoise BOURDARIE.
Sight Savers International (SSI)
If today this English international structure is no longer at our side in the management of ophthalmological units in Guinea, it was, through its local representative, Fanfodé KONDE, our pillar in the creation of the Boké center. Working together, our two associations completed the layout and equipment of the Boké ophthalmological unit and co-managed, for 5 years, one of the reference centers in Guinea. After the withdrawal of SSI from the management of this type of structure, Voir La Vie took over alone the destiny of the Boké and Dabola units.
Association des Médecins Diplômés de Cuba (AMDC) – Association Droit à la Vue
These two Guinean associations, distinct from each other, help us in carrying out our programs. The first, under the direction of Dr. Hawa SOUMAH, being the basis of our professional training in ophthalmology and optics in Conakry.
The second has just lost its founder, Sangaré M'BASSY, who allowed us to carry out prevention campaigns in rural areas in the Kindia region.