Help Save Sight-Vision Screening at Ogden Prepartatory
ORGANIZATION: Friends for Sight
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Join us just 10 minutes away from WSU to do a free vision screening for Kindergarten-3rd grade at Ogden Preparatory!
Over 80% of learning is visual-could you imagine going through school not being able to see? We want to help students learn of their eye problems so they can get proper treatment.
Unlike our other opportunities, this screening will NOT require a training prior to the event. We will do a training on how to do charts at 8:00am, and then screen students from 8:30am-12:30pm. If you'd like to join us, or have any questions, please email Kirsten at program@friendsforsight.org to sign up.
More opportunities with Friends for Sight
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Friends for Sight
Location:
661 South 200 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111, US
Mission Statement
Friends for Sight works passionately each day to save sight and change lives. We do this by providing free vision screenings, working to ensure that people of all ages and backgrounds have access to quality eye care, and disseminating information about eye safety, threats to vision, and available community resources. When you check the box on your drivers license or license plate tag applications, you can make a $2 donation to FFS.
Description
Established in 1955 to provide vision screening for children for Amblyopia, lazy-eye blindness, as Friends For Sight we have a single mission: to preserve sight. Since 1955, over 580,000 children - that's over one million eyes - have been screened. In addition over 420,000 adults have been screened for Glaucoma, called the sneak thief of sight. Since we established the high school driver training vision screening program in March 2001, approximately 188,000 students have been screened in schools throughout the state.
Volunteers are the backbone of the agency, accounting for almost 70% of the service hours provided. Each volunteer is trained in the screening processes of screening with charts, glaucoma and visual acuity machines. Our eyes impact our quality of life from birth to death, and like all our vital signs, our eyes work 24/7. Please join us in the awesome task of saving sight. Helen Keller said, "Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1415 Lincoln AveOgden, UT 84404
DATE POSTED
March 8, 2017
SKILLS
- Child Development
- Spanish
- Youth Services
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- Orientation or Training
- Screenings is 4.5 hours-welcome at future events!
- Training at 8am and submitting name for check