Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Name: S A Chandrawathi Age: 51
Location: Her home, Sri Lanka
Project: Giving Sight in Sri Lanka
Chandrawathi is the mother of newly trained Vision Technician, Niroshan. They live along a dirt road next to paddy fields in a remote area of the Kegalle District in Sri Lanka. Chandrawathi is a housewife and cares for her family. Her ...
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Father of two young children, Alito, has been working as an Eye Care Nurse in East Timor for six years. “…in East Timor people are not educated, they live in the rural areas and there it is difficult to get access to the media. That’s why they live with blindness as they don’t ...
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Nutritional supplements are a multi-billion dollar industry and Eyecare professionals have a role in it. There are specific supplements for dry eye and other ocular needs. We have been sampling products from MedOp, Inc. and really like their formula MaxiTears. Here is some information about them from the MedOp, Inc ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Optelec teamed up with writers, directors and producers Drew Antzis and Tamara Bick who are most notable for work with FunnyorDie.com. The film stars Brian Fischler, a nationally recognized, legally blind stand-up comedian and Founder of Laugh for Sight not-for-profit who was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa. It was shot throughout ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
One man had a vision – and now one million underprivileged people can see better for it.
Non-profit group RestoringVision.org issues its 1,000,000th pair of glasses
By day, Mark Sachs is a product manager for Blue Shield of California, where he helps California policyholders get the support they need to protect their ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
LORI RACKL, Chicago Sun-Times GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) ― After three days climbing one of the highest mountains in North America, it was time to make the final push to the summit. Chicago-area mountaineers Tom Lillig and Steve Baskis shivered in the cold, thin air as they packed their gear, ate some ...
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
The Georgia Lions Lighthouse foundation partners with local doctors to provide free and reduced-cost eyeglasses, eye surgeries, and hearing aids to the working poor across Georgia. Find out more at http://www.lionslighthouse.org.
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