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Eye Care Hawaii recently contributed to Sweet Cane Cafe’s “Organic Can Rush” campaign. Sweet Cane Cafe is a Hilo-based certified organic juice business that grows sugarcane, limes, lemons, tumeric, and many other ingredients that go into delicious juices. Eye Care Hawaii is proud to support local businesses that create wonderful products that also respect our environment. Learn more at Organic Cane Rush Coast to Coast.
Aloha! My name is Casandra and I was born in Kentucky and raised on Oahu. I graduated from Maryknoll High School in 2007 and currently am attending UHH with a major in Biology, in the cell and molecular division. I started at Eye Care Hawaii in November 2011 and have really loved the experience. I was contemplating careers in either nursing and pharmacy, but I now realize that those occupations are not right for me. Through my internship at Eye Care Hawaii, combined with my experiences with the optometry club at UHH, I feel that optometry is a career I could love and thoroughly enjoy. After graduating form UHH, I plan to attend optometry school and pursue this passion. Outside of academics and internships, I like to hangout with friends, watch movies, or just relax in my free time.
These students came to shadow Dr. Miyashiro and our technicians from Kamehameha Schools.
Hi, my name is Paula. I am in the Health and Wellness Academy at Kamehameha High School. I am planning on going into the dental field but being an optometrist is my second choice. I was interested in this because I love helping people and I feel like I would be comfortable and capable of being in the medical field. I like biology and learning about the human body so I think anatomy and physiology would be interesting for me.
Aloha my name is Tyler. I attend Kamehameha schools Hawai’i Campus. I am a junior in the Health and Wellness Academy. I am interested in becoming an optometrist after I graduate from high school. I really enjoy helping people. I really enjoy studying biology and learning about the human body. I think I want to be in the medical field because I like helping others and working with people.
25 % of children cannot see the chalk or white board in their classrooms.
But you and Eye Care Hawaii can help!
Eye Care Hawai is participating in the Keiki Vision Screening 2012 for elementary schools in the Hilo and Keaau area. We love helping our community by visiting elementary schools and screening kids for vision problems.
Did we go to your child’s school (see schedule below)? If not, contact us to learn how we can help set up a screening!
Thursday, 1/12/2012 8:30 am Chiefess Kapiolani Elementary
Thursday, 1/19/2012 8:30 am Kaumana Elementary
Monday, 1/23/2012 8:30 am Keaukaha Elementary
Thursday, 2/2/2012 8:30 am Keaau Elementary School
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Keiki Vision Screening 2012
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For More Information Contact:
Eye Care Hawaii
(808) 935-8887 / info@eyecarehi.com
EYE CARE HAWAII GIVES GIFT OF VISION TO PEOPLE IN NEED
Hilo, HI – October 12, 2011 — Local optometrist, Dr. Grant Miyashiro and Dr. Kristina Dimova of Eye Care Hawaii, is joining the World Sight Day Challenge during the month of October to help give the gift of vision to people in developing countries.
On World Sight Day celebrated in October, Eye Care Hawaii will make a donation that will help provide eye exams and glasses to children in developing countries who can’t see well enough to learn at school, as well as adults who don’t see well enough to provide for their families.
Optometry Giving Sight, the organizer of the World Sight Day Challenge, funds programs that provide eye exams and glasses, trains local eye care professionals and develops vision centers that deliver long-term vision care to people in desperate need. There are 670 million people who are blind or vision impaired simply because they don’t have access to an eye examination and glasses.
We are proud to donate to such a worthwhile cause. It’s easy for us to take good vision for granted, so taking the World Sight Day Challenge is a great way to raise funds to help people who don’t have access to even basic vision care.
We are inspired by stories like that of 18 year old Donglian Lei from a rural province of China – although her blurred vision stopped her from seeing the blackboard, she hadn’t told her teacher as she didn’t want to make a fuss. Caring for her mentally ill father and working the family’s farmland for four hours each day before school, Donglian couldn’t afford an eye exam.
Thanks to a visit from a team of newly trained local eye care professionals and a pair of glasses, Donglian now has the opportunity to fulfill the potential she has already shown in her young life.
Donations will enable Optometry Giving Sight to fund more sustainable programs that provide eye exams and glasses to millions of people in need. Raised funds will be directed to projects in 16 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Just $5 can provide an eye examination and a pair of glasses for someone in a developing country. Eye Care Hawaii is also inviting our patients to make a donation at our practice throughout the month of October.
Optometry Giving Sight guarantees that 85 percent of all funds raised by optometrists and their patients go directly to programs that give sight to those most in need.
Eye Care Hawaii is located at 34 W. Kawailani St., Hilo, HI 96720. Call (808) 935-8887 to schedule an appointment!
For more information about Optometry Giving Sight and the World Sight Day Challenge, visit www.givingsight.org or call 1-888-OGS-GIVE.
About Optometry Giving Sight
Optometry Giving Sight is a joint initiative of the World Optometry Foundation, the International Centre for Eyecare Education and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Industry sponsors include CIBA VISION, the Brien Holden Vision Institute, CooperVision, Vision Expo, Wolters Kluwer, First Vision Media Group, Marchon, Vision Source! and AllAboutVision.com. Optometry Giving Sight is a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
About World Sight Day
World Sight Day is an initiative of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight and is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO); the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and non-government organizations with the shared goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020, in order to give all people in the world the right to sight. This year, World Sight Day will be held on Thursday, October 13.
About the World Sight Day Challenge
The World Sight Day Challenge is a major fundraising campaign coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight which is designed to raise funds for projects that provide vision care, local training and infrastructure support for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error – simply the need for an eye exam and a pair of glasses.
Optometrists are invited to participate by:
1019 8th Street, Suite 304, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
T | 1-888-OGS-GIVE F | +1 303 279 8042 W | www.givingsight.org E | usa@givingsight.org
Optometry Giving Sight is a collaboration of the World Optometry Foundation, the International Centre for Eyecare Education
and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
