Opticianry Students Assistance Underprivileged Children

Opticianry students Amanda Stevenson as well as
Angelica Dennis.

Opticianry programme faculty as well as students joined dozens of other expanse optic aid professionals at Richmond’s Arthur Ashe Center to volunteer alongside OneSight Vision, a traveling hospital providing gratis optic exams as well as novel eyewear to children inwards need. Staffed past times local doctors as well as trained volunteers, OneSight Vision turned the Arthur Ashe Center into an optical lab the size of a football game field, equipped alongside everything needed for an optic examination as well as novel eyewear. Children who see these vans have novel prescription eyewear on-site.

OneSight collaborated alongside Richmond City Public Schools, Children Incorporated & The Rudi Johnson Foundation to render gratis optic aid for underprivileged children inwards the Richmond area. Reynolds Opticianry programme educatee volunteers assisted alongside registration, escorting students betwixt stations, as well as screenings. With a pocket-sized amount of training, volunteers too helped students select frames or hold upwards the auto refractor, explained Reynolds Opticianry Program Head Yvonne H. Metten.

“This is a slap-up chance to ambit dorsum to my community,” said Opticianry educatee Leah Redden. “I know what nosotros are doing hither today is helping about of these children encounter improve inwards school, as well as then they tin acquire better. If they require glasses, they volition walk out of hither today alongside glasses….free of charge.”

“As a kid I grew-up wearing glasses, as well as then I know how of import it is for these children to snuff it fitted for the right glasses,” said Opticianry distance learning educatee Angelica Dennis from Middleton, Va. “Plus coming to the effect gave me the chance to see the Downtown Campus for the have down time.”

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