Practitioners urged to join eyewear project

Practitioners are being invited by charity Vision Action to get involved with a new social enterprise which aims to deliver a sustainable supply of adjustable prescription and other eyewear to people in Africa.

Chairman and founder, Ken Macdonald, said that stimulating a sustainable supply of affordable spectacles will help those needing glasses live full, normal lives while creating jobs, providing employment and income to those communities.

Macdonald said he was looking for optometrists and dispensing opticians interested in getting involved either by visiting the charity's target country of Cameroon or fundraising here in the UK.

Vision Action operates by visiting countries without eye care services to provide simple training to local people to enable them to screen for vision problems. Those local people become Vision Action Spec Vendors and are provided with a uniform, testing equipment and a range of glasses at no cost.