“I couldn’t see what the teacher wrote on the board and, after a while, my eyes would start to hurt,” said Ashayna Williams, a Grade Six student at John Austin Primary School. “With the glasses, I can see so much better already! At first, I thought I would hate wearing glasses, but I love them. They look like regular sunglasses.”

Williams is one of the children benefiting from a $525,000 donation of vision kits by N.C.B. Foundation to the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB), helping children with visual impairments and vision challenges to access critical eye care support.

For Child’s Month, the foundation partnered with the JSB to support its vision care programme, which provides screenings, assessments, prescription glasses, assistive devices, and other eye care services for children in need. Through the initiative, screenings were conducted at five schools across Jamaica, with approximately 200 students identified for further assessment and intervention.