Sharing Saturday – Cleaning for a Reason

Ree — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:44:05 +0000

From my dear friend Krissa –

Cleaning for a Reason

If you know any woman currently undergoing Chemo, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE
housecleaning – 1 time per month for 4 months while she is in treatment.

All she has to do is sign up and have her doctor fax a note confirming the treatment. Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in her zip code area arrange for the service. http://www.cleaningforareason.org/

Please pass this information on to bless a woman going through Breast Cancer treatment. This organization serves the entire USA and currently has 547 partners to help these women. It’s our job to pass the word and let them know that there are people out there that care. Be a blessing to someone and pass this information along.

—- I wanted to find more to share, but Shortman is here and we’ve got pizza and three hours of Dream Team queued up to watch. —-

Sharing Saturday – Vision

Ree — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:33:32 +0000

Did I ever confess my love of glasses? I mean, not only do they allow me to see my loved one’s faces, to read and write and craft, to get from one place to another without ending up wrapped around a fire hydrant or a tree (cough::TigerWoods::cough), but they come in *so many* colors and styles – even my inner fashionista is calmed.

I have 3 pair with my current distance prescription, 2 pair of reading/computer glasses, 1 pair of bifocals and 1 pair of prescription sunglasses keeping me happy and focused (pun intended) right now. I didn’t buy all of them at once, but I am lucky in that a) my vision hasn’t changed that much over the past 4 years, so I just keep my old pairs and b) I have vision insurance.

Not everyone gets to have their eyes checked annually for free. Not everyone can afford a single pair of glasses. I know that. So I’m passing along this bit of news from our friends over at The Fresh Air Fund:

One out of four school children in the U.S. has vision problems, and 86% do not get their vision checked before age 12.

Many Fresh Air children do not have access to affordable vision care. Glasses break, are too expensive to replace, or are never prescribed in the first place. And often as a result, children’s performance in academics, sports and activities suffers.

For the fifth summer in a row, OneSight offered to bring their traveling optical clinic to all five Fresh Air Fund camps.

Together with OneSight’s Vision Vans – and a team of local doctors and volunteers, OneSight provides free eye exams and eyewear to thousands of children in need each year.

This summer at Fresh Air camp, OneSight’s staff screened 3,295 children and counselors, gave 1,757 eye exams, and made 1,629 pairs of glasses, with 1,458 of them on-site and 171 specially driven in. The team stayed at Camp Hayden-Marks for two camp sessions, to make sure every child who needed the gift of sight was screened.

Although you might think some children would be reluctant to be prescribed glasses, most of them are delighted. They’ve been missing out on the world around them for too long. (Being able to pick out their own frames helps, too.)

Our friends at OneSight told us about a boy at Camp Mariah who ran to the Vision Van before the team had even begun setting up in the morning.

“You guys have the van, right,” he said, clapping and jumping up and down. “The one that I can get glasses from?”

We thank OneSight and you, for helping inner-city children receive the services they need.

—- OneSight visited India, too! —-

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