Optique Vision Care collaborated with Rotary Club of Stabroek in an eye care project in observation of World Glaucoma Week during which 17 children from two orphanages and four public schools were provided with free spectacles.
The project was a joint effort between the two organizations. It started last Sunday and ended yesterday.
General Manager and co-founder of Optique Vision Care Dhani Andrew Narine told Stabroek News, “It is the core value of Optique Vision Care to work with youths, who are the future, towards their education.” The initiative, he said, was a collaborative effort in the fight to eliminate global blindness and visual impairment and was the third eye care project undertaken by the organization since it opened in 2013.
Thirty-two children from two orphanages and four public schools were thoroughly examined by the company’s optometrists and spectacles were prescribed for and made available to 17 of them. The children, whose ages ranged between 10 to 16 years old had very high prescriptions and were experiencing difficulties reading in school.
The spectacles were handed over to them at a simple ceremony was held on Friday at Optique’s Giftland Mall branch.
The Rotary Club of Stabroek is known for its significant contribution to the less fortunate through community-based projects that are focused mainly on literacy and skills training. Over the past ten years, the Rotary Club of Stabroek has participated in several projects, both independently and jointly with other organizations, to achieve its objectives.
Glaucoma is an eye condition that causes damage to the optic nerve which affects one’s vision.
