Lockyer makes a difference in Ghana

Optometrist Vicky Lockyer helped save the sight of hundreds of Africans during a two week  mission to Ghana.

She took 4,000 discarded spectacles, some of which were collected by her employer Leeds Co-operative on the Vision Aid Overseas trip. The team tested about 3,000 people, with Lockyer seeing up to 60 adults and children a day, four times more than her average number of appointments at home.

'Some had not had eye tests for some 20 years,' she said, 'and others, who had once had cataract operations, had not been tested since or been fitted with lenses.'

She said the trip was an 'amazing experience' and she felt she was 'making such a difference to someone's way of life'. www.vao.org.uk