Vision To Learn launched its Georgia effort in August 2017, with events at Michael Hollis Innovation Academy and Welcome All Park & Multipurpose Center. Vision To Learn’s first Georgia vision van will provide free vision screenings, eye exams, and glasses to students in Atlanta Public Schools (APS) throughout the 2017-18 school year. Former APS Superintendent Meria J. Carstarphen attended the Hollis Academy launch event, at which 49 students received glasses.
Vision To Learn’s Atlanta program is supported by the Atlanta Hawks Foundation. In addition to financial support, the Hawks Foundation will participate in several glasses-dispensing events at schools located near Hawks community basketball courts. Hawks players, mascot Harry the Hawk, and Hawks Cheerleaders will appear at schools to help celebrate kids’ receiving their new glasses. The first Hawks-themed event took place at Fickett Elementary School in December 2017.
With the help of local visionaries such as Georgia Power, Junior League of Atlanta, Waterfall Foundation, Learn4Life, and others, we have since launched in DeKalb, Clayton County schools, and Gwinnett County Schools to address the estimated 60,000 children in need of vision services. Our Georgia program has had particular success with providing services at out-of-school program sites as well. This is largely due to a successful partnership with the Cobb and Gwinnett County library systems. Over 700 children have received glasses thanks to this collaboration.
![A stage full of youngsters who just received their glasses at Hollis Innovation Academy in Atlanta. Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education District 2 representative Byron Amos stands tall in the back row.](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/youngsters-with-new-glasses-in-atlanta.jpg)
![Atlanta Hawks mascot](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/atlanta-hawks-mascot.jpg)
![A Vision To Learn mobile clinic adorned with Atlanta Hawks branding is parked in front of a red brick building.](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/Gwinnett-Library-Duluth-Vision-to-Learn-Compressed-1200x800.jpg)
Georgia Supporters
Atlanta Hawks
Bobbie Bailey Foundation
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Community Foundation For Northeast Georgia
Deerbrook Charitable Trust
Elizabeth Benator Family Foundation
Fulton County Community Services Program
Georgia Power Company
The Home Depot Foundation
Junior League of Atlanta
Learn4Life
OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
Primerica
Rotary Club of Sandy Springs
The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation
The Waterfall Foundation
Contact
Ayanna Browne
National Operations Director, GA, MI, and NJ
+1 (470) 228-5002
georgia@visiontolearn.org