• Domaine :

  Health

• Région :

  Montreal

• Pays :

  Canada

The project:

In the fall of 2016, following numerous meetings between Jean Gagnon and Fatima Lahmami Langlois of the Fondation Coup de Coeur and Doctor Claude Chagnon optometrist, we decided to set up a visual screening program in a dozen elementary schools Of the Island of Montreal.
The selected schools will be those from the most disadvantaged areas as defined by the Ministry of Education and students who will be identified as needing prescription glasses will receive a free pair of the Coup de Coeur Foundation.
To do this, FCC purchased a portable refractometer (2 WIN) worth $ 18,000.00 as well as all the modern equipment needed to screen for a complete school in less than one Day with 5 or 6 volunteers accompanying Doctor Chagnon.
It should be noted that, as Madame Hogue, director of the Marc-Aurèle-Fortin School in Rivière-des-Prairies, said, "children who do not see well at school experience a serious personal problem and moreover, they are not Concentrated on their own notebooks and books become a major source of disturbance for other students who do not have a visual problem.
We plan to do this screening in about fifteen schools for a first year for a total of about 6000 students of whom more or less 20% will need glasses.