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Join the Retrospecced Revolution!

This week is Fashion Revolution week, and it marks the anniversary of the terrible events that took place in the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, when the building...

Ethical Unicorn: Review of Retrospecced

Here we have copied a post reviewing Retrospecced by the wonderful Fran from the Ethical Unicorn blog. Read, enjoy, and check out her website too! Don't forget we...

Our first vintage fair!

It’s been nearly a week since our first vintage fair, which was held in the Town Hall in Oxford. It was one of the Lou Lou’s Vintage Fairs,...

Dusting off my keyboard...

It’s March already! As I’m writing this I’m watching the snow fall out of my window – which is pretty remarkable for Cornwall! Apparently they haven’t had snow...

Compassion Fashion: Brand Review by Benita Robledo

Thanks to the lovely Benita Robledo of the Compassion Fashion blog for this awesome write-up and for letting us repost it here for you, we're so thrilled to...

One Year Naked ♥ brand review: Retrospecced

The lovely Laura of the sustainable fashion blog, One Year Naked, recently bought a pair of Retrospecced frames from us and without us being aware that she was...

An Aladdin's cave of spectacles at Vision Aid Overseas HQ!

It’s taken me a few weeks to get round to writing this blog post as it’s all been a bit of a whirlwind this past month! Our website...

Seeing the classroom - Wubit Habtie

Wubit Habtie is a 35 year old teacher at Amba Giorgis primary school, in northern Ethiopia. For the past 8 years, Wubit has been teaching biology to mostly...

Seeing the blackboard - Adams Mambwe

The following story is of Adams, a boy helped by Vision Aid Overseas recently in Zambia. Eleven year old Adams needed glasses to see properly. Before Adams was...

Self-employed carpenter - Mapepala Musonda

The following story details how donations to Vision Aid Overseas helped self-employed Carpenter, Mapepala Musonda get back to work. Mapepala is a 57 year old carpenter from Chipulukusu,...