Eye Care

 

Dear Friends:  

We invite you to join us to bring eye care to poor rural children in China . Since 2002, we have sent more than 30 American volunteers to teach in the Tu Jia and Miao Minority Region in rural schools in China where the per capita income is less than $200 per year. These   Chinese students are eager to learn about American language, culture, politics and business, which we believe reflects an emerging trend within Chinese society as a whole.  

Our New Eye Care Program in Rural Hunan

In Baojing, rural Hunan , China , along with some basic necessities, some luxury items include things such as electricity, consistent health care, and eyeglasses.   To compensate for the lack of eye care and to ward off poor vision, students do mandatory eye exercises each morning for five minutes instead of recess. With more than seventy-five students in each class, you can imagine how the students in the back strain to read the intricate Chinese characters   during lessons. Many students have to crowd into local American volunteers' dorm after school class   because they needed the light to do their homework, otherwise they would return home only to a dim candle, or darkness.

We are working with a group American volunteers who teach in rural Baoing to have optometrists come and give students eye exams. We have provided founding for examination fees for all 9000 students in Baojing County in 2004.

Next year, we want to expand our eye care program to rural Zhangjiajie mountain people, Guizhou rural people and Yunnan minority people.

We hope some American volunteers can go with us next summer to provide eye care. We are also working with some the Chinese optometrists. There are thousands of rural students who need glasses. If only we could buy them all ourselves...

Dr. Michael Wong, a Honolulu optometrist at Kaimuki Eye Care Center , has agreed to help us in this eye care program and has given us some good advice. So, we are asking for your help, and for you to donate if you can. Each pair of glasses is less than $ 10 and your donations are tax deductible.   We need used medical equipments and some funding. Mr. Guohua Liu (West region) and Kevin Anderson (East and Midwest region), two of our mainland volunteers, are collecting those equipments to ship them to rural China . Their contact information

Mr. Liu

guohua@civiced.org

Fax: 818-5919330, Phone,: 819-5919330

Mr. Kevin Anderson

kanderson205@hotmail.com

A small price to pay to see this beautiful world, isn't it? 

Thank you!

Checks can be sent to EAFI at the following address:

Eye Care Donation Project Director

Caroline Kim

Education Advancement Fund International

3356 Francis St

Honolulu , HI 96915

On memo, please write Baojing eye care.

Dr. Kate Zhou

Founder of EAFI