Who We Are

​Saving Kids’ Sight was set up by Sarah Smale when she was eleven years old. Sarah set up Saving Kids’ Sight to help others like her, living with visual impairment, to keep their sight, and to enjoy a full and happy life. 

• We have provided a total of 44 Icare tonometers to Duke Eye Center to enable families of children with severe glaucoma to measure their child's eye pressure up to three times a day at home. Families send the results to their ophthalmologist, who can adjust their child's treatment in real time, and thus preserve their precious sight.
• We host several education and support events each year for families in the Puget Sound region. Past events include themed arts and crafts afternoons including glass fusing and ceramics, a zoo overnight camp, aquarium visit, swimming pool fun, and BBQs.

Latest Happenings

• We donated 16 more Icare tonometers to the lending library in October, for a total of 44 Icares in the lending library. These are being used to expand our reach to children seen at Penn State in Hershey, PA and OHSU in Portland, OR, and we plan to expand to Bascom Palmer, FL in 2020.
• Please help us to continue our mission and give hope to more children and their families. Click here to set up a fundraiser in Facebook to support us.  

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Sarah credits her current level of sight to the careful management of her glaucoma, including measuring her eye pressure regularly at home, and working closely with her glaucoma specialist at Duke Eye Center, Dr. Sharon Freedman.  Without the ability to monitor her eye pressure frequently at home at different times of the day, her eyesight would be much worse.  Click to read more.

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Glaucoma cannot be cured. 
​The better it is managed, the better the chance for saving sight.

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Our Mission

Preventing childhood vision loss through sharing knowledge, supporting families, and connecting in communities

Saving Kids' Sight Goals
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Set up Icare tonometer lending library through Duke Eye Center.

Increase awareness of
​glaucoma in kids

Provide opportunities for families to meet up with others like them.  

Share knowledge, and support families, to prevent vision loss.

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“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much".
​-Helen Keller"