Month 7: Helping Kids See a Bright Future

With the start of the traditional school year, August is about young visionaries seeing a bright future. In fact, it’s also Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month.

What better way to give back to the community then to support a local program that has an immediate impact on Raleigh citizens with free eye exams in schools. Articulon’s donation to Prevent Blindness North Carolina will cover the cost of providing 10 vision screenings to 10 children at 10 different Triangle schools.

Prevent Blindness North Carolina

The only agency in North Carolina dedicated solely to saving sight

Organized in 1967, Prevent Blindness North Carolina (PBNC) has been serving some of the most at-risk populations of North Carolina for 44 years. PBNC helps prevent vision loss by working within communities to provide screenings and access to follow-up resources.

Cindy with Joe Kimray, Development Coordinator at PBNC

In addition to giving more than 512,000 screenings for children through the Kenneth Royall Children’s Vision Screening Improvement Program, last year PBNC provided:

• 24,184 preschoolers with photo-refractive vision screening
• 3,684 adult vision screenings were done at senior centers, health clinics and the NC State Fair
• 871 vouchers were issued for students to see an eye doctor and receive glasses if perscribed
• 552 people recieved eyeglasses through the Healthy Eyes Program