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Cambridge Students Given Glasses as part of Vision To Learn
CAMBRIDGE, OH – Students at Cambridge Primary School were delighted to try on and see clearly with their brand new glasses today. The glasses were provided through a unique collaboration between the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, Ohio Optometric Foundation and nonprofit provider Vision To Learn, which together will use a mobile vision clinic to provide school-site vision care to thousands of students in Appalachian Ohio in the years to come.
An estimated 45,000 children in Southeastern Ohio go to school every day without the glasses they need to see the board, read a book, or participate in class. Through this collaboration, thousands of students attending Title I schools in districts throughout the region will be provided a vision screening, eye exam, and – if needed – a pair of glasses, all free of charge.
“iSee with Vision To Learn” Launches in Ohio, benefits Cambridge students
CAMBRIDGE, OH – Students at Cambridge Primary School were delighted to try on and see clearly with their brand new glasses Friday. The glasses were provided through a unique collaboration between the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, Ohio Optometric Foundation and nonprofit provider Vision To Learn, which together will use a mobile vision clinic to provide school-site vision care to thousands of students in Appalachian Ohio in the years to come.
An estimated 45,000 children in Southeastern Ohio go to school every day without the glasses they need to see the board, read a book, or participate in class. Through this collaboration, thousands of students attending Title I schools in districts throughout the region will be provided a vision screening, eye exam, and – if needed – a pair of glasses, all free of charge.
Cambridge Primary students receive free eye exams and glasses
The Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge City School District s new partnership with Vision to Learn will ensure every student who needs eyeglasses will get them.
The mobile clinic for Vision to Learn, a non-profit organization in conjunction with the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio and the Ohio Optometric Association, recently visited the Cambridge Primary School.
Using the rolling eye doctor s office, optician Nancy Mesko completed vision exams for 24 students in kindergarten through second grade, whose vision screening earlier in the year indicated a more thorough exam was needed.
Vision to Learn will return in about three weeks with the glasses for students who need them, according to Mark Scarmuzzi with Vision to Learn
Apr 1, 2021
More than a third of Ohio is part of Appalachia. Those of us living along the Ohio River know quite well the similarities in communities on either side of that boundary. Among them is a challenge being tackled by a Foundation for Appalachian Ohio proposal, which has been deemed “Pay for Success Appropriate and Ready” by state Treasurer Robert Sprague’s office.
The foundation plans to develop a mobile vision clinic by partnering with Vision to Learn and the Ohio Optometric Foundation’s iSee program to serve students at Title I schools in the state’s 32 Appalachian counties.
Kudos to both Sprague’s office, for giving the program a chance; and to those in Nelsonville’s Foundation for Appalachian Ohio who have their ducks in a row and the confidence in measurable success to seek out the funding. It will benefit students well.
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