Vision To Learn

Vision To Learn provides free eye exams and free eyeglasses to students in low-income communities.

134,304 Kids Helped   Mobile eye clinic brings the glasses to the kids

Michigan

Detroit

In fall 2016, Vision To Learn launched in Detroit. Partnering with the Detroit Health Department (DHD), Vision To Learn established a full-time mobile vision clinic to serve students in Detroit Public Schools Community District, and in multiple Detroit charter schools. The Detroit project kicked off with a press event at Samuel Gompers Elementary and Middle School, attended by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit Pistons Forward Tobias Harris, DPSCD Interim Superintendent Alycia Meriweather, and DHD Executive Director Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

This project is supported by the Pistons Foundation, The Ballmer Group, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the DMC Foundation, the Dresner Foundation, and the Jamie and Denise Jacob Family Foundation.

Mayor Mike Duggan wrote an Op-ed highlighting the program and the need for student vision care, which can be read here.

An estimated 8,000 students in Detroit need glasses.

Western Wayne County

With the Detroit program as a base, Vision To Learn will add a second clinic in fall 2017 to serve students in Flint and communities throughout Southeastern Michigan, including South Redford. This expansion is supported by the Pistons Foundation and the Margaret Dunning Foundation.

 

Michigan Supporters:

The Ballmer Group
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Detroit Health Department
Detroit Medical Center
The Detroit Pistons Foundation
Detroit Public School Community District
The Dresner Foundation
Margaret Dunning Foundation
The Jacob Family Foundation
Penske Corporation
The Rathmann Challenge

 

Contact

Vision To Learn
Jamie Moore, Program Manager
+1 (315) 585-8362
Questions or concerns: michigan@visiontolearn.org

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan helps a boy with his new glasses at Vision To Learn’s Detroit Launch at Samuel Gompers Elementary-Middle School, October 2016.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan helps a boy with his new glasses at Vision To Learn’s Detroit Launch at Samuel Gompers Elementary-Middle School, October 2016.
NBA legend Earl Cureton and Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun, Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department, help kids receive their new glasses at Ronald Brown Academy in Detroit, February 2017.
NBA legend Earl Cureton and Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun, Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department, help kids receive their new glasses at Ronald Brown Academy in Detroit, February 2017.
Arn Tellem is on hand to give kids glasses at Ronald Brown Academy in Detroit, February 2017.
Arn Tellem is on hand to give kids glasses at Ronald Brown Academy in Detroit,
February 2017.