Luxottica has been awarded as finalist at the 2011 Sodalitas Social Award

Luxottica has been awarded as finalist at the 2011 Sodalitas Social Award. Sodalitas is an organization part of the Europe CSR network, in charge of promoting CSR in Italy.

Every year, the Sodalitas Social Award, awards the more significant initiative of CSR in Italy.

Luxottica has submitted a plan within the category “Activities to benefit the communities” with e a project titled: “Plan for a sustainable development of primary eye care for the population of The Gambia”, a three year project in partnership with Sightsavers International that wants to create refractive services with the set up of optical labs, vision centres and education programs.

This is a very innovative project for OneSight that evolves into a more sustainable approach.

More than 200 companies submitted more than 251 project plans at this 2011 edition of Sodalitas Social Award.