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Subscribe to RSSChildren across the country have poor eyesight – but some don't have proper vision care and never get the glasses they need. An organization called Vision to Learn is changing that, helping thousands of Los Angeles schoolchildren see clearly. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
Tonight "Nightly News" profiles an organization called Vision to Learn that's helping kids whose families can't afford to buy them eyeglasses. Not only is it improving their eyesight -- it's also ensuring the children are better able to learn.
Learn more about the organization by clicking here to visit their website and watch the video below to hear from the Vision to Learn founder on how the organization got started.
Austin Beutner, the founder of Vision to Learn, explains how the program works and how better vision gives children a chance to learn.
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They fail to point out that the only problem with the reporting on this story is that these people who cannot afford glasses for their children already get 3 pairs a year; free of charge to them through Medicaid; os taxpayers pay for them. Another source of free glasses for children is through Lions Clubs International. A Lions member acquaintenance of ours tells me that it is getting harder for them to give away their glasses to the underpriveledge beacuse of all of the other sources that these people have for their free glasses.
I know how important good vision is for kids, having gotten my first glasses at age 7. But do they really pay $100 a pair for these glasses. I now buy my own single vision prescription glasses, which is what these kids need, for as little as $10 per pair. I buy them online from www.zennioptical.com, and no this is not an ad. Why is there so much waste in these social service programs? And as previously noted, there are several sources for free glasses for kids who can't afford them. Isn't there some way to coordinate all these efforts, and run things more efficiently, using the money saved for other needs?