Fresh Air, Clear Vision
| This year, for the fifth summer in a row, OneSight teamed up with the Fresh Air Fund to bring their travelling optical clinic to all five Fresh Air Fund camps.
Together with OneSight’s Vision Vans – and a team of local doctors and volunteers, OneSight provides free eye exams and eyewear to thousands of children in need each year. This summer at Fresh Air camp, OneSight’s staff screened 3,295 children and counselors, gave 1,757 eye exams, and made 1,629 pairs of glasses, with 1,458 of them on-site and 171 specially driven in. The team stayed at Camp Hayden-Marks for two camp sessions, to make sure every child who needed the gift of sight was screened. |
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Although you might think some children would be reluctant to be prescribed glasses, most of them are delighted. They’ve been missing out on the world around them for too long. (Being able to pick out their own frames helps, too.)
One boy at Camp Mariah ran to the Vision Van before the team had even begun setting up in the morning.
“You guys have the van, right,” he said, clapping and jumping up and down. “The one that I can get glasses from?”
They made a real difference to his life, and they deserve all the publicity and support they can get to allow them to continue to make a real difference in the lives of others too.
