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Members of Girlguiding Cheshire Forest and neighbouring counties doing a variety of community action projects in The Gambia.

Thursday, 9 April 2015

Eye Testing

We had 2 eye professionals in our team, so we decided to do some eye testing to help the local community. Rachel is an orthoptist and Lucy is a dispenser, so they teamed up to run this session. We collected hundreds of prescription glasses in the UK and sent them over before we went.

In the morning, we tested the 30 women who were learning first aid with us, then in the afternoon we had 40+ people from the local community. Several people went away with new glasses and were able to see again after a long time with poor vision.

Big thanks to Warrington hospital and Action for Blind People who donated a large amount of low vision aids which we took and distributed.

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Testing eyes with basic equipment

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Testing eyesight using basic methods

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Fitting glasses
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We only had basic eye testing equipment

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Heating up the glasses so that they could be fitted properly