Aminah Yoba (l) and Mark Lorey.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—RestoringVision announced the appointment of two vice presidents to its newly formed leadership team to accelerate its impact in solving the global vision crisis. This follows a year of substantial growth, in which RestoringVision expanded its reach by 48 percent in 2022.  In 2023, the organization aims to reach over 4 million people living in extreme poverty with the vision services and eyeglasses they need to see clearly. Aminah Yoba, formerly RestoringVision’s senior director of development, joined the organization in December 2020 and has been promoted to the position of vice president of philanthropy.

Yoba will lead RestoringVision’s philanthropic strategies and programs, focusing on increasing foundation, corporate, and individual giving to accelerate the organization’s continued growth and impact.
 
Prior to joining RestoringVision, she served as director of institutional and major gifts at Breaking Ground, a nonprofit organization working to combat homelessness in New York City, and as development officer at VisionSpring, Inc., a nonprofit optical social enterprise. Aminah brings over two decades of experience working with nonprofit and for-profit entities advancing goals, objectives, and organizational development initiatives.
 
Mark Lorey joins RestoringVision and its leadership team as vice president of global programs and impact. He will lead the strategy, planning, execution and evaluation of RestoringVision’s programs worldwide. 
 
Before joining RestoringVision, Lorey served as vice president and partnership leader for global program strategy, quality, and evidence at World Vision International, where he worked for over two decades based in Africa and Washington, D.C. Prior to that he worked with USAID and Save the Children.  

He is a seasoned global development leader who has collaborated with programs and partners in over 70 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. He is passionate about scaling and sustaining impact for the most vulnerable and looks forward to growing RestoringVision’s partnerships, program, and impact worldwide.
 
RestoringVision partners with a network of more than 2,500 NGOs and government partners to provide life-changing vision screenings and eyeglasses to millions of people who could not access them otherwise. RestoringVision has reached more than 24 million people in 147 countries since 2003.