America's favorite charitable shoe company, TOMS, has expanded their product line to include hip eyewear. The recently launched line of sunglasses follows Toms' successful one-for-one model. With every pair purchased, Toms helps give sight to a person in need. In the past, we also wrote about another favorite eyewear company, Warby Parker, who follow a similar one-for-one model.

Some staggering facts on blindness:

- Blindness and visual impairment is the 7th largest health disability in the world but in most cases it is treatable or prevantable.

- Of the nearly 284 million people in the world who are visually imparied, 90% live in developing countries. Poverty and disease lead to vision loss and vision loss keeps people trapped in poverty - a vicious cycle.

- More than 18 million children suffer from blindness

- 2/3 of people who are blind are women

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