Loading ...Day 1 – Making Glasses – What They Currently Have To Work With
The workshop still has stocks of old lenses and frames however these are unsuitable for use and the project aims to supply the Optical Workshop with new stocks. The glasses that you all collect and bring to our branches will be delivered to the Optical Workshop, amended and then dispensed to patients in Ethiopia.
Tym Marsh, Director of VAO says: “VAO is determined to expand its work in the developing world and bring the benefits of optometry to many more needy patients. We will be tackling the problem of uncorrected refractive error from all directions, not just by supplying spectacles but by training local health workers, supplying equipment and providing advice and encouragement. In addition, we will be setting up optical workshops and training local people to use them so that spectacles can be made to prescription. Once a workshop has been established we will provide ongoing support and assistance. We will wish to ensure that workshop equipment continues to function, that it receives routine maintenance, that the skills of workshop staff are regularly checked and refreshed, and that stocks of lenses and frames are always to hand. This is a big job but with the help of partners such as D&A we will succeed.”
“It is amazing to think that you can collect donations from your customers and within months colleagues are fitting a pair of spectacles manufactured in the Menelik Workshop to a Teacher in Ethiopia who can then continue to work” Richard Rawlinson, Franchisee at Brownhills Branch & VAO Member.
Everyone can make a real difference to this project either through donating your old glasses to Vision Aid Overseas or by joining in the fundraising in our local D&A branches.
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