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Vision To Learn

Vision To Learn provides eye exams and eyeglasses at no cost to students in low-income communities.

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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 provided 52,000 eye exams and 39,000 pairs of glasses to children in the following counties:

  • Atkinson
  • Brantley
  • Clayton
  • Clinch
  • Cobb
  • DeKalb
  • Douglas
  • Floyd
  • Fulton
  • Glascock
  • Gwinnett
  • Habersham
  • Hall
  • Henry
  • Jefferson
  • McDuffie
  • Polk
  • Stephens
  • Taliaferro
  • Troup
  • Warren

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 library systems where over 7,300 children have received an eye exam and more than 5,000 have been provided with a pair of glasses thanks to this collaboration. Our program works with the following library systems:

  • Clayton
  • Cobb
  • DeKalb
  • Douglas
  • Fulton
  • Gwinnett
  • Henry
A large group of young students, and representatives from Vision To Learn and the Atlanta Hawks, posing for group picture against a white wall in a school gymnasium.
A group of J.E. Edmonds Elementary are joined by representatives from the Atlanta Hawks after receiving a brand new pair of glasses.
A large red hawk mascot wearing an Atlanta Hawks jersey, with the number one printed on it, runs past a group of students while giving them high fives.
Atlanta Hawks mascot Harry the Hawk hi-fives J.E. Edmonds Elementary School students in Forest Park, March 2025
A young student wearing purple framed glasses sits in a Vision To Learn clinic in front of an autorefractor as they give a thumbs up.
An inside look at a Vision To Learn mobile clinic where a child is trying on frames for their new glasses.
Three young male triplets wearing identical red shirts, pose for a picture showing of their new glasses.
Identical triplets from Winn Holt Elementary in Lawrenceville show off their new pairs of glasses.
A news report created by Cobb TV that highlights Vision To Learn’s summer partnership with Cobb County Libraries.

Georgia Supporters

Atlanta Hawks
Bobbie Bailey Foundation
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Cobb & Douglas Public Health
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Community Foundation For Northeast Georgia
Deerbrook Charitable Trust
Elizabeth Benator Family Foundation
Fulton County School District
Georgia Power Company
Gwinnett County Public Schools Foundation Fund
The Home Depot Foundation

Jesse Parker Williams Foundation
Junior League of Atlanta
Learn4Life
Marietta Schools Foundation
OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
Primerica
R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
Rotary Club of Sandy Springs
The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation
The Waterfall Foundation

Contact

Shana Ellis
Program Manager
+1 (470) 228-5002
georgia@visiontolearn.org