St. Maarten Lions Club members at a meeting with the managers of the various primary schools last week.\n\n
PHILIPSBURG--The St. Maarten Lions Club calls on parents to complete the consent forms allowing their children to take part in the Club’s upcoming children’s eye-screening project set for Belair Community Centre from 7:30am to 4:00pm May 14-18.\n\n
The project is completely free to all schoolchildren, but requires the signed consent of their parents or guardians for the free testing. Lions Club Immediate Past President Davey Woods said some 4,000 public primary school pupils of groups three to eight would be screened by Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH) International under the theme “Eyes for a Brighter Future.”\n\n
VOSH is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Nineteen doctors and assistants will come to St. Maarten for one week only, with three fast screening machines to test the eyes of all primary school pupils while they are on the island.
VOSH will bring and supply eyeglasses on the spot for the children who need glasses. For children who do not receive glasses on the spot because of non-availability or special requirements, VOSH will purchase the prescriptions in the USA, Canada or locally within a three-week period.
To complete the project on time, the St. Maarten Lions Club has requested class deviation and extended school hours from the Ministry of Education for those days. This Sight Project by St. Maarten Lions Club is funded 80 per cent by donations and fundraisings over the past year and through generous donations from various sponsors, while VOSH is handling the balance of the funding.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/76391-parents-urged-to-sign-eye-screening-forms"
