Hopeful Ways

An ALL-VOLUNTEER 501c3 non-profit providing humanitarian services to disadvantaged people in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

The group was formally founded during a 2012 eye care mission project to Nicaragua and the group's second project in Nicaragua. The warm, friendly and welcoming people captured our hearts, and we were impelled to continue the missions. Hopeful Ways was incorporated and granted 501c3 status in 2014.

08/26/2025

Optometrist still needed for Jan 2025 eye care mission - now promoted in VOSH/International newsletter. Interested? Contact : Jim Carlins at jjcarlins@gmail.com or (716) 909-8942.

08/19/2025

Perfect weather for the Hopeful Ways "Bicycling for Sight" fundraiser. Each $200 restores sight for a person nearly blind with severe cataracts.
DONATE NOW! to support the ride!
Credit card: www.hopefulways.org
Check: PO Box 1037 Getzville NY14068. Thank you for your support!

08/18/2025

Hopeful Ways Volunteer Appreciation Event - a fun gathering of like-minded people - Friday night dinner, Saturday all-day picnic, Game playing, Relaxing by the pond and Touring Niagara Falls. A full weekend of fun. Many thanks to all the volunteers, including the many who could not attend. Your loyal support has been a Godsend to those we serve.

08/10/2025

**** CORRECTION: Ride is on Aug 18th @ 6 PM. ****
Restore Eyesight by Supporting the "Bicycling for Sight" ride on Monday Aug 18th at 6 PM. Every $200 raised sponsors a cataract surgery. Donate at www.hopefulways.org or join the ride by contacting Jim Carlins (716) 909-8942 or jjcarlins@gmail.com

08/04/2025

🚴‍♂️ BICYCLING TO RESTORE SIGHT
🎉 8th Annual “Sweets for Sight” Fundraiser Ride
📅 Monday, August 18, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM Ride Start
📍 N Amherst Fire Company
🚴‍♀️ Choose your route: 6, 10, 13, or 17 miles
🍦 All rides stop at Uncle G’s Ice Cream!

Join the ride team for fun, a sweet treat, and the chance to help someone see again!
👉 No fee to join – just ride, raise awareness, and share the joy.

Fundraising Goal: $5,000 to provide free eye care & surgeries to underserved communities in Central America.

Next Eye Mission: 🇨🇷 Costa Rica – January 2026

📞 Sign up: Jim Carlins – 716-909-8942 (call/text) or 📧 jjcarlins@gmail.com
💳 Donate online: www.HopefulWays.org
✉️ Donate by check: Hopeful Ways, PO Box 1037, Getzville, NY 14068

Restoring Sight. Changing Lives.
Over 20,000 served. Over 800 surgeries. One goal: Hope through Vision.
🙏 Thank you for your support!

07/20/2025

Hopeful Ways next 1-week Eye Care Mission to Nicoya Costa Rica starts on Jan 24, 2026. Optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists and non-medical volunteers are needed. It's a wonderful experience that you'll remember for a lifetime! Interested? Need more info? Contact: Jim Carlins, (716) 909-8942 or jjcarlins@gmail.com or www.hopefulways.org

07/01/2025

Hopeful Ways in partnership with Clínica y Fundación Ojo Sano and Leones Rivas Decano recently held an eye care screening clinic that identified 17 people who were nearly blind with severe cataracts and had their eyesight restored through eye surgery. Severe cataracts are the leading cause of curable blindness in the world. Additional donor support can increase the number of people who can see again. Please consider helping those in need.

06/05/2025

🦋 Hopeful Ways June 2025 Newsletter. 👀 SEE what's new with our medical and humanitarian services, and education opportunities to improve the quality of life for the people of Nicaragua!

➡ View a PDF of the newsletter here: bit.ly/4kn8AWB

📩 Message us to be added to our email newsletter!

05/21/2025

Thanks to the Catholic Newman Community for hosting an update presentation on the Hopeful Ways mission.

2024
--- 5 cataracr screening clinics
--- 66 sight restoring cataract surgeries

2025 - First Quarter
--- 4 cataracr screening clinics
--- 64 sight restoring cataract surgeries.
--- Eye care mission to Costa Rica to serve 900 needy people.

05/18/2025

Hopeful Ways attended the annual MD-20 Lions Convention to promote the free eye care mission services that it delivers to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Thanks to Joe Joseph Rizzo, Kalena Britt, Jim Carlins and Loretta Carlins for manning that table during the event. Many Lions visiting the table spoke favorably about the mission and asking their Clubs support the mission.

04/17/2025

12 People have their vision restored! in March, Hopeful Ways sponsored an eye clinic in partnership with Clínica y Fundación Ojo Sano Eye Clinic and Leones Santo Tomás Ch. Nicaragua Lions Club. 76 patients received free eye examination, and 20 patients were diagnosed with cataracts. 12 of these patient were nearly blind with severe cataracts and benefited by having their vision restored with free cataract surgery through the Hopeful Ways "Gift of Sight" Program.

04/03/2025

18 people diagnosed as being nearly blind with severe cataracts had their vision restored with cataract surgery through the Hopeful Ways Gift of Sight Program in partnership with Clínica y Fundación Ojo Sano / FONIPRECE and Nicaragua Lions Clubs.

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Getzville, NY

Telephone

+17169098942

Website

http://www.hopefulways.org/

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Restoring Vision to the Poor

Hopeful Ways was formally founded during a 2012 eye care mission project to Nicaragua and the group's second project in Nicaragua. The warm, friendly and welcoming people captured our hearts, and we were impelled to continue the missions. Hopeful Ways was incorporated and granted 501c3 status in 2014.

Hopeful Ways provides free medical and humanitarian services and educational opportunities to the needy in Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti. The people are hard working and welcoming, but have few resources and struggle to provide for their families. The Nicaraguan economy struggles resulting in an extremely high unemployment rate and the government provides for few social programs.

Hopeful Ways signature program has provided free eyecare services since 2011 with free care clinics and free eye surgeries. The clinics provide eye examinations, prescription and reading glasses, eye drops and medications, sunglasses and safety glasses. These services improve vision and provide education for healthy eye care and prevention of vision loss. Free eye surgeries restore eyesight to the nearly blind suffering from severe cataracts. Tears of joy are seen from post-surgery as patients can see again for the first time in years, possibly decades. Other free eye surgeries performed include: corneal transplants, pterygium, detached retinas and other abnormalities.

Hopeful Ways humanitarian projects have provided emergency relief supplies after hurricanes, mud slides, flooding and other natural disasters. Also adaptive equipment has been provided for handicapped people.