Project Mobile Clinic Vision Days: 2022
We teamed up with Lestonnac Free Clinic to provide monthly no-cost prescription glasses and patient education regarding ocular health and vision care to underserved Los Angeles residents. Free glasses adjustment and maintenance education is provided to attendees during dispensing.
Project Turkey: 2022
We teamed up once more with Dr. Kais Orabi, a local Optometrist in Istanbul, to see Syrian refugees of all ages and provide us with their prescriptions and choice of frames. We then filled the order in California and traveled in March to Turkey in deliver the no-cost prescription glasses to Syrian refugees and provide patient education regarding ocular health and vision care during dispensing.
A special thank you to Mr. Imad Kousa for spearheading the overseas efforts & the organization Tac for providing a space for the dispensing process!
Project FCO: 2021-2022
Our Co-founder began the first lecture of the five part Season II International Neuro-Visual Webinar Series! This webinar series is geared towards professionals in Neuro-Visual fields such as ophthalmologists, optometrists, and neuro-specialists in their respective fields and aims to educate them on the various aspects of Neurological Visual issues as well as how to diagnose and manage cases. Each lecture includes multiple case study analyses and is followed by a thorough Q&A session in French and English. A special thank you to Dr. Fethi Chabane for his continued efforts throughout this project!
Lecture I: May 25, 2021
Lecture II: February 25, 2022
Lecture III: September 24, 2022
Lecture IV: TBA
Lecture V: TBA
Project Turkey: 2021
We teamed up with Dr. Kais Orabi, a local Optometrist in Istanbul, to see Syrian refugees of all ages and provide us with their prescriptions and choice of frames. We then filled the order and our Co-founder travelled to Turkey in November to deliver the no-cost prescription glasses to Syrian refugees and provided patient education regarding ocular health and vision care during dispensing. A special thank you to Mr. Imad Kousa for spearheading the overseas efforts & the organization Tac for providing a space for the dispensing process!
Project Anaheim: 2021
We are excited to have been a part of the Vision Care wing of the Health Fair at the Anaheim Convention Center in November! We were able to provide free patient education & vision care for all!
Project Algeria: 2021
We are humbled to have had the opportunity to collaborate with Fromation Continue en Optométrie (FCO) and provide a free webinar about Neurological Visual Rehabilitation in Pediatrics and Adults to an international group of 2,100 vision professionals hailing from 58 nations around Europe, Algeria and Northern Africa. The lecture was followed by a thorough Q&A session covering aspects of ocular health and vision care.
COVID-19 Education | Laptops for Distance Learning: 2020
We are grateful to have been able to collaborate with Dr. Shah and the Downey Unified School District to facilitate the donation of 60 Chromebooks to help Downey High to help maintain quality education with distance learning during the pandemic.
Project Germany: 2020 – POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
We will be travelling to Germany in the Spring to see Syrian refugees and provide children and adults with no-cost prescription glasses and reading glasses, as well as patient education regarding ocular health and vision care. Additionally, patients will be screened for various types of ocular cancers, color blindness, and refractive errors.
Project Turkey: 2020 – POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
We will be travelling to Turkey in the Spring to see Syrian refugees and provide children and adults with no-cost prescription glasses and reading glasses, as well as patient education regarding ocular health and vision care. Additionally, patients will be screened for various types of ocular cancers, color blindness, and refractive errors.
Project Turkey: 2019
We traveled to Turkey in the March and saw Syrian refugees, provided children and adults with no-cost prescription and reading glasses, as well as patient education regarding ocular health and vision care. Additionally, patients were screened for various types of ocular cancers, color blindness, and refractive errors.
Project Malaysia: 2019
Our co-founder returned once more to IIUM in Kuantan, Malaysia. This year, she gave a lecture on Cortical Visual Impairments in Pediatrics followed by an interactive workshop and a thorough Q&A session covering aspects of ocular health and vision care.
Project Malaysia: 2018
Our co-founder was hosted by IIUM in Kuantan, Malaysia. Once there, she gave a lecture on Neurological Visual Rehabilitation & Vision Therapy followed by an interactive workshop and a thorough Q&A session covering aspects of ocular health and vision care.
Roughly 160 university undergraduate and graduate students, post-bachelor medical students, and local Optometrists attended the seminar.
Project Sweden: 2017
Our co-founder traveled to Gothenburg in November and met with two local medical and humanitarian nonprofit NGOs and held two humanitarian and educational workshops for medical professionals.
Project Turkey: 2017
Our co-founder traveled to Istanbul in November for a ‘Train the Trainers’ interactive seminar. K-12 school teachers & administrative staff attended our event and learned how to detect visual issues in their students both in the classroom and on the playground. Then, as a preventative and sustainable measure, our co-founder served as a liaison between the school and a local free medical clinic to see students referred by the school for free vision exams.
Project El Cajon: 2017
Sight & Sketches was hosted by Grossmont College in El Cajon, (San Diego) California. Once on the college campus, children and adults were screened for various types of ocular cancers, color blindness, and refractive errors.
No-cost vision exams were provided for roughly 100 Syrian refugee children and adults. Those who needed glasses were able to choose from a collection of new frames. 62 prescription glasses were dispensed at no cost as well as patient education regarding ocular health and vision care.
Project Istanbul: 2016
No-cost vision exams were provided for 1,000 Syrian refugee children and adults in Istanbul, Turkey. Moreover, 1,300 prescription glasses and sunglasses were dispensed at no cost.
Sight & Sketches was hosted by two K-12 schools for Syrian refugees in Istanbul, Turkey. Once on the school sites, children and adults were screened for various types of ocular cancers, color blindness, and refractive errors. Prescription glasses and sunglasses were distributed, as well as patient education regarding ocular health and vision care.
Sight & Sketches 