09 February, 2008
NEW YORK, New York, February 9, 2008. – As part of its Blindness Prevention program, the Batey Relief Alliance is partnering with the SVOSH of the New England College of Optometry to bring 20 students and faculty to deliver critical eye care and glasses to 1500 children and adults with eye problems, in need of a pair of glasses, and who are living in extreme poverty.
The seven-day mission activities will take place from March 8th through the 17th inside sugar cane batey community Porvenir in the province of San Pedro de Macoris. But hundreds are expected to travel from all over to take advantage of this once-in-a-life-time opportunity to check and treat their vision.
The team, in its third mission trips, is fully-equipped and self-sufficient, and travels with sophisticated equipment, thousands of dollars in medicines, eye drops and eyeglasses. The intervention will be coordinated by the Batey Relief Alliance’s field organization, BRA Dominicana, and the Dominican’s Lions Club Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo.
