Spectacles for Scholars at Aravind Eye Hospital Gets Straight A’s!

Imagine if you could not see the blackboard when your teacher is writing a mathematical formula. Or, what if the words in your history book appeared blurred and meaningless? Education is the ticket out of the circle of poverty, and poor vision severely impairs a child’s ability to learn. 

Aravind provides training for school teachers and screening free of charge, but donations provide spectacles for children identified with vision problems. In 2014, Aravind will screen 370,000 students and provide 13,000 spectacles to school children in South India. Aravind is working with most government schools in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry and plans to grow this program to provide 30,000 free spectacles every year.